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"Bayes" is a learning system.

Once you have marked a certain number of spams, it will start to get better at detecting them. I find that 1000 is a good number here.

You must also train it to recognise "ham" (non-spam) in a similar way (mark as non-spam).

I you find that it is not improving, close The Bat and use Windows explorer to delete the 'over-enthusiastic' dictionary. If too much is being passed as "non-spam", delete nspamdict.bye. If too much is classed as spam, delete spamdict.bye.

Having done that, start up TB and immediately retrain it with a good sample set - if it's spam, your junk folder should have a good sample set by now.

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Michael Redbourn User Posts: 16 Points: 12 Rating: 0 Authority: 0 Joined: 13 August 2019	#1 0 21 December 2004 15:58:52 I understand that BayesIt is a "plug in" but the Bat in someways supports it and in other ways doesn't. It's very hard to find info on the web regarding BayesIt and I don't even know if I'm using the latest version - I have version 0.7.4 I'm marking spam as spam and sending it to "Jumk" but this seems to do nothing. What do I need to do ? thanks, Michael

Marck Pearlstone Guru Posts: 317 Points: 570 Rating: 6 Authority: 6 Joined: 17 September 2004	#2 0 21 December 2004 21:05:50 "Bayes" is a learning system. Once you have marked a certain number of spams, it will start to get better at detecting them. I find that 1000 is a good number here. You must also train it to recognise "ham" (non-spam) in a similar way (mark as non-spam). I you find that it is not improving, close The Bat and use Windows explorer to delete the 'over-enthusiastic' dictionary. If too much is being passed as "non-spam", delete nspamdict.bye. If too much is classed as spam, delete spamdict.bye. Having done that, start up TB and immediately retrain it with a good sample set - if it's spam, your junk folder should have a good sample set by now. iviarck