better Bayesian bogofilter

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Wed Aug 13 14:00:45 CEST 2003


Greg Louis wrote:

>> What I'm more interested in knowing is exactly _how_ you plan to keep track 
>> of the ham/spam ratio.  One thought that crosses my mind is having a 
>> ".SCORE" token rather like .MSG_COUNT.  If I understand your article, 
>> .SCORE needs to be updated for each ham and each spam scored.
> 
> That was my first idea, yes. 

What is wrong with .MSG_COUNT, as long as you make sure you
don't diviede by zero?

> What I intend to do first is implement
> Eq. #5 with a single parameter that can be set manually

Which would almost impossible to use for train on error. So
this part of the test would not work.

pi





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