On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:36:09PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
