shipping bogofilter with a pre-built token database

tony at svanstrom.org tony at svanstrom.org
Mon Jan 15 20:26:10 CET 2007


pna.lists writes: 

> Have you considered shipping (optionally) bogofilter with a pre-built
> token database? 
> 
> There are some ham and spam public corpuses avaliable, e.g.
> http://spamassassin.apache.org/publiccorpus/ 
> 
> Training bogofilter to exhaustion and shipping the resulting database
> would definitely help some of the new users.

Today it would, but what about a day or so later when every spammer in the 
world suddenly can test all their spam against the default (optional) 
installation of bogofilter?! Then if people were to start auto-updating 
their databases based on these pre-built databases they'd end up fighting a 
real uphill battle where bogofilter initially might tag more ham than spam 
as spam... 


    /Tony



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