[Spambayes] Obvious Spam Missed...

Ryan Malayter rmalayter at bai.org
Tue Sep 16 15:45:07 EDT 2003


From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at comcast.net] 
> If you have a large imbalance, close Outlook,
> find your default_bayes_customize.ini file and
> change the line

Tim, can you quantify "a large imbalnace"? Is a 2:1 ratio significant
enough to cause problems, or would it have to be something on the order
of 10:1?

I'm getting a 98% capture rate after training with a 2:1 ham-to-spam
ratio, but other folks seem to be having troubles.



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