On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:01, Eben King wrote:
> > I put Spamassassin on my machine to deal with the spam issue
> > the two-week average of "% spams caught" has
> > gone from 38% two weeks ago to 44% now.
> > What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't it be improving?
>
> You also need to tell it how good email (ham) looks like. It should be a 50 -
> 50 split when you train it.
[eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mbox
Learned from 37 message(s) (63 message(s) examined).
[eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/linux
Learned from 537 message(s) (695 message(s) examined).
[eben@pc eben]$ sa-learn --ham --mbox mail/{bugtraq,sent-mail,sent-mail-nov-2005}
Learned from 421 message(s) (423 message(s) examined).
Cool, I'll see how it acts now.
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-eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar
"God does not play dice" -- Einstein
"Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws
them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking
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