Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:36:09PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Jonathan Matthews <jaycee.removeifnotspam@jaycee.uklinux.net> writes:
>
> > I think we're talking at cross purposes - I meant "I find it strange
> > that the excuses cited should be taken as reasons for the mail to be
> > less likely to be spam", not any other reading.
>
> Spamassassin default scores are set using a genetic algorithm[1].
> Basically, there's a large corpus of spam and non-spam, the scores
> are set at some default value, then modified by the algorithm until
> they accurately categorize the spam in the test corpus.
[snip]
Yes, Joey's already put me straight about upstream using a GA to
determine the default weightings. I was replying (without enoguh
context) to someone who I'd managed to mislead with my poor grammar :-)
Cheers!
jc
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