Bayesian SpamAssassin

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 11:25, elijah wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Barry Gould wrote:
> 
> > SpamAssassin is now reportedly using Bayesian classification as a
> > supplement to it's existing architecture:
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/24297/
> 
> one might ask, 'why bother?'. in my tests, bogofilter is hundreds of times
> faster and catches more spam.

SpamAssassin apparently seeds its database with rulebased spam, and
allows the bayesian analysis to kick in after it's collected enough
information to do so effectively.

IOW, you apparently don't need to seed your database manually.

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu>

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