[Spambayes] Spambayes training: not on sent messages?

[Robert K. Coe]

I don't think that's his problem. The postmarks on his message to the list suggest that he sends his mail through a Webmail interface. When you do that, does Spambayes even get to see your outgoing messages?

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Epler
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:03 AM
> To: frank.clarijs at belgacom.net
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Spambayes training: not on sent messages?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:06:14PM +0100, 
> frank.clarijs at belgacom.net wrote:
> > I tried to train Spambayes today, but found it only trained on about
> > half of the ham I served it. It seems that Spambayes is not training on
> > messages that I sent, only on messages I received. Is that considered
> > the normal way the tool works or is this somewhere a bug?
> 
> I would have sworn this is in the FAQ
> (http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html) but I didn't find it.
> Training on messages you sent is discouraged, and I think the Outlook
> plug-in even takes steps to stop you from doing it.
> 
> It's presumed that messages you send are sufficiently different from
> messages you receive that training on them would not improve the filter
> accuracy.
> 
> Jeff