[glouis at dynamicro.on.ca: Re: Spam / ham registration issue]

[Greg Louis]

Meant to send this to the list...

----- Forwarded message from Greg Louis <glouis at dynamicro.on.ca> -----

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:03:34 -0500
From: Greg Louis <glouis at dynamicro.on.ca>
To: Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Spam / ham registration issue
> 
> No, the key point here is that the tokens in question have
> been found in *every* single ham and *every* single spam, so
> we have pgood and pbad both equal to one.

Got it.  I forgot to adjust for the message counts.  Simple, eh?
Instead of pw = b / (b+g) it's actually pw = b/b / (b/b + g/g) which is
of course constant.

Gotta get that cuppa swallowed before I start doing this stuff.... :)

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