What is spam?

[David Relson]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:16:22 -0500
Matt Christian wrote:

> "Tom Anderson" <tanderso at oac-design.com> writes:
> 
> > +   Skip autoupdating '-u' if the spamicity is within this value of 
> > +   0.000000 (surely ham) or 1.000000 (surely spam)
> > +   in order to reduce over-sensitivity to common tokens and 
> > +   to minimize overall wordlist size.
> 
> Even better. :)  Thanks Tom.
> 
> - Matt

Tom,

You may be exaggerating the benefits.  I'm sure:

  Skip autoupdating '-u' if the spamicity is within this value of 
  0.000000 (surely ham) or 1.000000 (surely spam) in order to lessen
  wordlist growth.

is valid.  I've got some doubts about the "over-sensitivity" clause.


David