Newbie; multiple categories?

[David Carmean]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 07:50:58PM -0500, David Relson wrote:


> David,
> 
> Get yourself a new copy of bogofilter!!!  We stopped using the Judy 
> libraries many months ago - before Thanksgiving.  The current stable 
> version, bogofilter-0.11.1.3, is available at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter.  It uses the BerkeleyDB system 
> instead of Judy.
> 
> You could train bogofilter to do a work/non-work classification rather than 
> spam/non-spam.  The process would be the same.

Sorry, I see that I omitted from my mail that I *am* now using a 
modern version of bogofilter (0.10.3.1).

What I'm looking/hoping for is to have more than two (or three, if you 
count "undecided") categories of filtered mail.

What I do now with ifile is:

    Non-spam

    Spam
	adult (pr0n, gambling, etc)
	MMF/work-at-home
	other financial (home loans, etc)
	scams (Nigeria, etc)
	health (Viagra, etc)
	Unclassified

In addition to having an interest in knowing the proportions of 
different kinds of spam, this also seems to help ifile's detection 
abilities.  No idea whether the same would be true for bogofilter.

However, ifile's wordlist are stored in a single flat ASCII file, 
and I found it a little awkward to manage.

At the moment, I'm running them both....