[Spambayes] SpamBayes Old and New (part deux)

[Skip Montanaro]

    Dennis> 3)My inbox currently holds 75 valid emails (many not read) and
    Dennis> about 7,000 spams (nearly all not read.)  Since I posted the
    Dennis> original email in this list, I deleted about 5K spams, so the
    Dennis> raining originally occurred on about 60 good and 10K bad.  I
    Dennis> have tried training manually, and have also set it to "I haven't
    Dennis> configured..." in the hopes that it would learn faster.  In
    Dennis> other words, I go back and forth, with not much luck either way.
    Dennis> It is not clear to me which way I should leave it.  It did not
    Dennis> seem to matter before.

I suggest you try to get your ham:spam ratio closer to 1:2.  Even after your
many deletions, you still have 1:93.  Maybe just start from scratch.

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