Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data

[Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>]

rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:

> Actually, that generates an interesting statistical question -- how to
> estimate the temporal window/down-weighting of scores to adaptively
> optimize sensitivity/specificity in a time-heterogeneous setting,
> within the context of a reciever-operating-characteristic (ROC)
> curve... 

Heh.  Whatever.  :)

It works for me because I use only spam-stat.el -- no spam.el!  I have
a few thousand mails in mail.misc and mail.spam -- and should I ever
feel that I have too much (eg. more than a year worth of spam), then I
can just delete it manually.  Every now and then I delete my
dictionary and run an Emacs just to recompute the dictionary.  The
size of the ~/.spam-stat.el file is currently 447272 bytes, 28143
words, 5290 non-spam mails, and 466 spam mails.  It works very well.
At work I have over 4000 spam mails and a much smaller number of
non-spam mail.  A lot of spam is not caught.

Alex.