better Bayesian bogofilter

Greg Louis glouis at dynamicro.on.ca
Thu Aug 14 18:32:29 CEST 2003


On 20030814 (Thu) at 1051:47 +0100, Peter Bishop wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2003 at 7:47, Greg Louis wrote:

No, I didn't.  That was David :)

> > > 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.
> > 
> Is there a problem if the database is shared? 

No.  The number of users is immaterial, and an overall proportion is
the right figure to use.

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