ANNOUNCE: new Robinson-variant version of bogofilter

[David Relson]

At 08:04 AM 10/25/02, Graham Wilson wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:30:53AM -0400, Greg Louis wrote:
>
> > I suggested that initially, but David (rightly) believes we haven't
> > enough test results to make a final decision, and until then he would
> > prefer to have both in the cvs tree.  I have made a personal decision
> > to run Robinson's method only in production; others may decide
> > likewise, but a large ymmv disclaimer applies.  My patch is against
> > 0.7.5 not cvs; cvs will change, but my patch won't -- not till a new
> > stable release appears, unless I add or backport some new
> > functionality.
>
>i meant that we could keep both the graham and the robinson algorithm in
>cvs. the user could then select one at runtime (-r or -g) or at compile
>time (--with-algorithm={graham,robinson,both}).

Graham,

I expect that we'll keep both algorithms in bogofilter for quite a 
while.  Given enough supporting evidence, we will change the default from 
Graham to Robinson.  However, so long as their are people who use each of 
the algorithms, we need to have them both available.

David