comments from a new user

[Peter Bishop]

On 9 May 2003 at 23:13, Andrew Pimlott wrote:

> > Consider a token with a pgood score of 0.1.  That means it appears in 10% 
> > of the good messages that have been registered.  Given that there are a 
> > gazillion other messages in the world, your statement isn't quite right.
> 
> True, but I would think that anyone even roughly familiar with how
> bogofilter works would understand that these numbers are based on
> the messages that have been registered.
> 
> > Perhaps you can suggest a different wording ...
> 
>     "the likelihood (extrapolated from your registered non-spam
>     messages) that a non-spam message contains this token"
> 

       "The proportion of good messages that contained this token"

"proportion" is simply that - it does not claim anything about the 
probability of future messages containing the token.

I think it is obvious from the context that we are talking about messages 
registered in the database.
-- 
Peter Bishop 
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