From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54524 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Shields Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Training for ham and training for spam Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:54:37 +0000 Organization: Mad Science Research Labs Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87oevz4y6a.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com> References: <76u15ru93j.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067457292 29221 80.91.224.253 (29 Oct 2003 19:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3065@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Oct 29 20:54:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEwP2-0008II-00 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:54:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEwOw-00048x-00; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:54:42 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEwOs-00048h-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:54:38 -0600 Original-Received: from challah.msrl.com (challah.msrl.com [198.137.194.222]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB923A004D for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:54:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 21641 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2003 19:54:37 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO mulligatwani.msrl.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Oct 2003 19:54:37 -0000 Original-To: Jake Colman In-Reply-To: <76u15ru93j.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> (Jake Colman's message of "Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:39:28 -0500") Original-Lines: 9 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54524 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54524 In message <76u15ru93j.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com>, Jake Colman wrote: > Is it truly necessary to train for ham or can I just train for spam. You need to train for both; Bayesian filters work not only by recognizing what features are correlated with spam, but also what features indicate that mail is likely to be ham. -- Shields.