[Gllug] Testing spam filter

[John G Walker]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:32:32 +0000 Tim Porter <tim at timporter.co.uk>
wrote:

> I am still interested to know if there is a good way of properly
> testing any spam filter

I don't think there's a generalised way. There are ways of testing each
spam filer. Or there may be generalised ways of testing eg a Bayesian
filter. But a generalised way of testing any arbitrarily-chosen filer -
I can't see how any such thing would be possible,

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 All the best,
 John
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