>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
GvR> Perhaps more useful would be if Tim could check in the
GvR> pickle(s?)  generated by one of his training runs, so that
GvR> others can see how Tim's training data performs against their
GvR> own corpora.
He could do that too. :)
-Barry

On 6 Sep 2002 at 10:31, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>   your mail, and gives you only the non-spam.  To train it, you'd only need
>   to send it the false negatives somehow; it can assume that anything is
>   ham that you don't say is spam within 48 hours.
I have folks who leave their email programs running 24 hours a day, constantly polling
for mail. If they go away for a long weekend, lots of "friday night spam" will become
ham on sunday night.  (Friday night seems to be the most popular time)
> - Your idea here.
Ultimately I'd like to see tight integration into the "most popular email clients".. As a
stop-gap to the auto-ham ..
How about adding an IMAP server with a spam and deleted-ham folder. Most email
clients can handle IMAP. Users should be able to quickly move "spam" into the spam
folder.
Instead of deleting messages (or, by reprogramming the delete function) they can
quickly move ham into the ham folder.
In either case, the message would be processed and then destroyed.
Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
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> >   your mail, and gives you only the non-spam.  To train it, you'd only need
> >   to send it the false negatives somehow; it can assume that anything is
> >   ham that you don't say is spam within 48 hours.
>
> I have folks who leave their email programs running 24 hours a day,
> constantly polling for mail. If they go away for a long weekend,
> lots of "friday night spam" will become ham on sunday night.
> (Friday night seems to be the most popular time)
So we'll make this a config parameter.
> > - Your idea here.
>
> Ultimately I'd like to see tight integration into the "most popular
> email clients".. As a stop-gap to the auto-ham ..
What's an auto-ham?
> How about adding an IMAP server with a spam and deleted-ham
> folder. Most email clients can handle IMAP. Users should be able to
> quickly move "spam" into the spam folder.
I personally don't think IMAP has a bright future, but for people who
do use it, that's certainly a good approach.
> Instead of deleting messages (or, by reprogramming the delete
> function) they can quickly move ham into the ham folder.
Yes.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)