Re: Legitimate postings marked as junk?

In article <SalmonEgg-64A5CB.18294227042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article
<wayne.morris-CD7005.12153327042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The spam posts are NOT being marked by other people. They're being
marked by the program you're using. MT-NewsWatcher has a built-in junk
filter.

It's not perfect, but you can train it to be more accurate. When you
see that it made a mistake, use the "Mark as Junk" or "Mark as Not Junk"
command to correct it.

For more info, read the MT-NW online manual:

<http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/docs/JunkFilter.html>

Thank you and others who have pointed this out. I could not believe that
MT-NewsWatcher was so inept at extrapolating my junk markings so
inappropriately.

See the Wikipedia article on Bayesian filtering:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_filtering

--
Barry Margolin, barmar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
.