Incorrigible spam

[Tom Anderson]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 01:14, Tom Anderson wrote:
> > I frequently correct three spam and then get 3-7 ham that start 
> > reporting unsure.  By iterating over the known body repeatedly I negate 
> > the effects of certain key phrases.
> 
> This appears nearly impossible with my wordlist.  I've never had a ham
> score higher than 0.15.

I was just thinking about this again, and while I don't doubt your
observation, something else must be influencing your result.  Think
about this:

1) you register three successive hams
2) you register one spam 5-10 times until it is sufficiently spammy

Now, is it possible that any of your previous three hams is no longer
hammy?  For this to be true, it would need to be composed almost
entirely of the tokens in the spam.  And if this were the case, then it
couldn't have scored as ham with only one registration, right?  

Successively registering these hams and spams until they each score
correctly will polarize the difference while neutralizing the
intersection.  This is precisely what we would want to achieve.

Tom

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