On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 tallison@tacocat.net wrote:
Bogofilter and SA, when they added Bayesian filtering) both exhibited a rather retarded functionality for the first 100 emails or so. After a bit they began to learn. Given that initial curve... Unless dspam starts with a preloaded wordlist or something else, I can't imagine it's success being significantly different at the beginning.
The SA instructions _specifically_ tell you that you must train the Bayes stuff _before_ using it; you have to feed it at least 500 spams and 500 hams, or something along those lines.
I imagine similar tools suggest the same.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK