comments from a new user

[Greg Louis]

On 20030510 (Sat) at 0713:31 -0400, David Relson wrote:
> 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.
> 
Agreed.  This is an entirely accurate description of what pgood and
pbad really are.  Thank you!

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