paulbayessvenssonorg paul svensson fri 6 sep 2002 guido van rossum wrote quite independently testing tuning algorithm id like think deployment eventually individuals postmasters able download spambayes software distribution answer configuration questions mail setup training false positives install filter modest initial goal might production tool easily used individuals since likely find individuals willing risk postmasters impression precollected corpus would fit individuals well individual group collect corpus one problem comes upp immediately individuals lazy currently get 50 spam 50 ham day ill press delete button spam ill happy press spam button instead however addition press ham button ham starts look much less like win add time install setup whole machinery ill keep hitting delete suggestions far hook something delete action adds message ham corpus see two problems ham bit skewed mail keep around without deleting counted secondly force habit happen press delete key instead spam key ill end spam ham anyways would like look way deal spam ham obvious thing trigger spam button time look messages similar deleted one ham corpus simply remove need way compare two word count histograms see similar ideas also personally would prefer see spam get bounced preferably already smtp false positives become senders problem rewrite remove spam smell well tuned system spam corpus much smaller ham corpus would possible slightly overagressive clearing potential spam ham corpus make easier keep clean good way remove spam ham corpus theres less need worry getting mistake might well simply add messages ham corpus didnt get deleted spam filtering might also useful way remove messages spam corpus case user ooops paul fri 6 sep 2002 122757 0400 edt spambayes corpus collection deployment