Spam Filter ISP Forums : Why haven't I seen anything blocked by Bayesian Filter? https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:04:56 +0000 Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:02:00 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.04 360 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4759 <![CDATA[Spam Filter ISP Forums]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ <![CDATA[Why haven't I seen anything blocked by Bayesian Filter? : Kriss, In average spam messages...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4784&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4784 Author: LogSat
Subject: 4759
Posted: 17 December 2004 at 12:02am

Kriss,In average spam messages are 5-20 times more that good messages. Our own corpus.ini file looks like this:

[Messages]Spam=9105146Good=559984

We receive 20x more spam than good emails. Still, under these conditions, during the past 3 days we blocked 100,000 emails using MAPS filter, 90,000 using blacklisted countries, and only 1,000 using Bayesian filtering.

Being in yours and Benny's case spam and clean counts so close, it may be hard for the statistical filter to accurately determine what is spam and what is not. If you wish we can try emailing you our own corpus database to see if it makes a difference.

Roberto F.LogSat Software]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:02:00 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4784&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4784 <![CDATA[Why haven't I seen anything blocked by Bayesian Filter? : my corpus is: Spam=31412Good=28248 I&#039;ve...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4775&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4775 Author: ktrunkett
Subject: 4759
Posted: 15 December 2004 at 9:33pm

my corpus is:

[Messages]
Spam=31412
Good=28248

I've only seen 4 emails get caught by the Bayesian filter, and they were all false positives. 

]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:33:00 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4775&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4775 <![CDATA[Why haven't I seen anything blocked by Bayesian Filter? : Benny,Please see http://www.lo...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4770&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4770 Author: LogSat
Subject: 4759
Posted: 14 December 2004 at 6:12pm

Benny,

Please see http://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/showmessage.asp?messageID=4620 for an explanation.

Roberto F.LogSat Software]]> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:12:00 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4770&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4770 <![CDATA[Why haven't I seen anything blocked by Bayesian Filter? : corpus.ini Spam=5566Good=46480 ...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4759&PID=4759&title=why-havent-i-seen-anything-blocked-by-bayesian-filter#4759 Author: Guests
Subject: 4759
Posted: 14 December 2004 at 11:17am

corpus.ini

[Messages]
Spam=5566
Good=46480

 

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