best practices question
Michael Elkins
me at sigpipe.org
Fri Sep 20 22:24:04 CEST 2002
Ben Rosengart wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, 2, by far.
>
> For me, a big part of the utility of a bayesian spam filter is that I
> don't have to do the work of figuring out what makes spam identifiable
> as spam. All I have to do is identify it, and let the software find
> the interesting words.
>
> Looking at the counts kept by ifile, I see that "border" has appeared
> 26 times in nonspam and 1874 times in spam. It would normally not
> occur to me to filter on this word.
>
> I also train the filter on good mail, and I don't see why anyone
> wouldn't, if they're using a private set of word lists.
I agree with this, but I also think it should be configurable. Right
now I'm using the procmail magic to make this happen automatically.
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