[Spambayes] Love Spambayes, but I wonder if

[Jesse Pelton]

Interesting!  I wonder if there's an appropriate place for this in the
wiki? 

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> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Russ Foster
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Love Spambayes, but I wonder if
> 
> 
> I've start experimenting with Spambayes a bit more on my home Linux 
> machine.
> 
> I have two directories: TrainSpam and TrainHam
> 
> I put false positives/negatives and unsures in the 
> appropriate directory.
> Every 5 minutes a cron job trains on those directories.
> 
> Once a day, another cron job:
> 
> - purges anything in these two directories that is older than 7 days.
> 
> - moves my existing 'hammiedb' file
> 
> - creates a new 'hammiedb' file
> 
> - forces a re-training on the TrainSpam and TrainHam directories
> 
> While I don't have anything quantitative, my amount of false 
> negatives and 
> false postives seems to be drastically reduced.
> 
> This script has the effect of only keeping words in the 
> database that have 
> been seen in the past 7 days. Accounting, somewhat, for the 
> change in the 
> character of spam (and ham).
> 
> Maybe once a day is overkill...but right now my system has cycles to 
> spare.
> 
> -r
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Jesse Pelton wrote:
> 
> > See
> > 
> http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#can-i-share-move-my-
> training-d
> > ata-from-one-computer-to-another for how to do this.
> >  
> > But there's a price for that answer: I'm going to give you 
> my opinion as
> > well. I wouldn't bother copying the training data. 
> SpamBayes learns very
> > quickly, and the character of the spam I receive changes 
> over time, so I
> > rather than hanging on to training data, I delete it and 
> retrain from
> > scratch periodically. Within a day or two I find I'm getting better
> > results.
> > 
> > 
> 
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