What is a word (lexertest)

[David Relson]

At 05:29 PM 10/23/02, Mark Lanett wrote:

>Tom Allison wrote:
>
> >How to correct false readings from a POP
> >server.
>
>I've been thinking about the same thing, but from the IMAP perspective.
>
>What I have now is 3 spam mailboxes: Caught, Missed, Incorrect.
>
>Caught: procmail moves things into Caught based on bogosity=Yes
>Missed: If bogofilter misses a spam, than I manually move it from my Inbox
>into Missed. A daily cron job runs over these messages with -s and deletes
>them.
>Incorrect: If bogofilter puts *valid* email into Caught, I move it into
>Incorrect. A daily cron job runs over these with -n and refilters them with
>procmail. [Note: this is theoretical, it hasn't happened to me yet].
>
>This seems pretty clumsy to me. Also it is not right to have mail processed
>with -u -e -p and then to correct it with -s (or -n): this results in the
>same words being added to both lists, when they should be removed from the
>wrong list.

Rather than -s and -n use -S and -N to correct for improperly classified 
messages.  The latter two switches _move_ the words from one word list to 
the other.  The move process involves decrementing counts for the "from" 
word list and incrementing counts in the "to" word list.

>To summarize: basically you have to consider both false positives and false
>negatives in the error handling. And there is confusing user load.
>
>~mark
>
>
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