Posted on July 19th, 2008 at 8:55 PM (4 months ago)
Defensio: Quarter Million Spams Caught And Counting…3 Comments On This Post (Feed)
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Still quite a lot of room for improvement if the false positive rate is 8%.
Peter on July 20th, 2008 at 5:05 PM wrote:
Well I look at it this way: out of 251449 total comments, it got 141 wrong which is 0.05%. As for the false positives, I probably get one or two a week lately I’d say which is pretty good. Plus they’re easy to find as comments are sorted by spam rating.
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