[bogofilter] parameter question (the rob's)

[David Relson]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:39:15 -0400
Tom Allison wrote:

> If min_dev > abs(0.5 - robx)
> does the new token still get counted in the database even though it is
> 
> ignored in the specific email evaluation?

The short answer is "Yes".  The long answer is that the scoring
parameters are used only during scoring.  They are ignored when
registering tokens.
 

> --------------------------
> 
> Various parameters influence these calculations, the most important
> are:
> 
> robx:  the  score  given to a token which has not seen before. robx is
> 
> the probability that the token is spammish.
> 
> robs: a weight on robx which moves the probability of a little seen 
> token towards robx.
> 
> min_dev: a minimum distance from .5 for tokens to use in the 
> calculation. Only  tokens  farther away from 0.5 than this value are
> used.
> 


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