[Spambayes] Cool feature...

[Tony Meyer]

> Since you guys have the means to categorize e-mails as "Spam",
> "Not spam" or "Not sure", then I'm sure it would not be too
> much of a streatch to have "n" categories instead of only 3...

This is commonly known as "n-way classification".  If you're really after
it, then I would recommend that you give POPfile a try (there is an Outlook
plug-in, I believe).  You should get pretty good results.

<http://getpopfile.org>

Changing SpamBayes to do this is covered in these feature request trackers:

[ 799149 ] Extend the reach of the Add-In to general e.Mail sorting
<http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=799149&group_id=61702&atid=
498106>

[ 844796 ] SpamBayes as mail manager?
<http://sf.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=844796&group_id=61702&atid=
498106>

There's a script that does basic n-way classification in the source
distribution of SpamBayes, but it's not of any use to Outlook users.

However, (to steal words from the expert, Tim), SpamBayes is inherently a
binary (2-way) classifier, and exploits that in ways that don't generalize
straightforwardly (if at all) to N-way classification.

=Tony.Meyer

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