Is bogofilter classifying algorithm "symetrical"

[Marek Zachara]

On Thursday 26 of May 2005 00:51, David Relson wrote:
>
> The algorithm is _almost_ symmetrical.  There are some special scoring
> factors that break the symmetry.  Initially the goal was to bias
> messages towards ham scores (on the theory that false negatives are
> preferable to false positives).
>

Thanks for the thorough answer.
Actually i plan to set up an experiment to use the bogofilter for 
classification of unknown text files (not e-mails) so i needed to know if i 
shall expect such behaviour. If the asymmetry is not to high, it shouldn't 
matter, otherwise i'll set up two instances of bogofilter trained in the 
"opposite way" and get a result as i.e. (result1 + 1-result2)/2

Marek