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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:51:58 -0400 "Derek J. Balling" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:59 PM, Allan Poindexter wrote: > > At LISA a couple of years ago a Microsoftie got up at the SPAM > > symposium and told of an experiment they did where they asked their > > hotmail users to identify their mail messages as spam or not. <snip> > The recipient is > > the only person who can determine these things. Sure, but humans aren't perfectly accurate... Early tests with bayesian classifiers, on the false postive rate, tended to indicate that building a classifier with a lower false postive rate than the humans was pretty easy. Certainly my own experience is that I occassionaly tag things as junk, or mis-moderate messages to mailing lists. my own false postive rate is probably less than 1% spammassassain's is much lower than that. false negatives however are a reason I sitll have to tag things. > I'm gonna hold up the "I call bullshit" card here. Recipients most > certainly *can* get it wrong. > > >
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