SpamBayes Settings Help
This page contains statistics and settings for the SpamBayes
spam-filtering system.
- Number of tokens: this value is for the
technically curious. A higher value indicates that the spam
filter is more likely to classify messages properly, as it
has a larger base of statistical information to base it's
decisions on
- Trained spam: this value is the number
of messages you have trained as spam
- Trained clean: this value (you may have
guessed) is the number of messages you have trained as
clean
- Clean Threshold: this value, which is
user-customizable, indicates the minimum 'score' a message
must recieve to be considered 'not-spam'.
- Spam Threshold: this value indicates the
'score' beneath which a message will be considered spam.
- Incinerate Spam: By default, Quotient
does not delete anything. This is to ensure that you do not
unintentionally delete something of importance (i.e. "but
i thought the red 'X' meant '10'!") You can indicate
here that you want Quotient to permanently
delete messages marked as spam after an
indicated amount of time, instead of moving it to the 'trash'
(whose contents are never automatically deleted)
- Reset SpamBayes: in all likelihood, you
will NEVER NEED TO PUSH THIS BUTTON. It causes the database
of training information to be deleted permanently. You will
have to completely retrain the spam-filtering system after
pressing this button, so make sure you know what you're
doing... and then think twice again