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Adaptive weighting?

Adaptive weighting?

Posted Mar 4, 2004 4:34 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Adaptive weighting? by Ross
Parent article: Keeping spamassassin current

Sounds like an excellent idea! I hope you will share it with Spamassassin developers. Complex rules is Spamassassin's strength. The way how they are combined (addition) is spamassassin's weakness. Predictiveness of the score is another weakness. Let's get rid of weaknesses.


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Adaptive weighting?

Posted Mar 4, 2004 6:09 UTC (Thu) by mkettler (guest, #3933) [Link]

SpamAssassin has had a bayesian filter, in addition to the rules, for the past 8 releases. The first version with a bayes subsytem was 2.50, released Feburary of 2003.

No need to share this with the sa-devs.. they clued in a long time ago.

Adaptive weighting?

Posted Mar 4, 2004 20:23 UTC (Thu) by skybrian (subscriber, #365) [Link]

It sounds like you misunderstood the point. Unless something changed since 2.50, the bayesian filter is just a separate set of rules. The weight on each rule (including the Bayesian rules) is static.

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