comments from a new user

[David Relson]

At 03:34 AM 5/10/03, Peter Bishop wrote:

>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"

Peter,

This is what I've been looking for - clean and simple.  The official FAQ on 
SourceForge has been updated.

Thank you.

David


>"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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