Accuracy is lacking

[Tracy R Reed]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:29:50PM -0500, David Relson spake thusly:
> Am I right to guess that you're using the default configuration for 
> 0.10.1.5, i.e. the robinson algorithm?  It might be valuable to switch to 
> Robinson-Fisher (via "-f" on the command line or "algorithm=fisher" in the 
> config file).  RF tends to polarize the results with spam shifted towards 

Yes, I am using the default config. I have added the -f so we'll see what
happens. If this is normal for the default config it seems that the
default config isn't too useful for blocking spam. :)

> Unfortunately, one can't tell much from the scores.  I often find it of 
> value to manually run bogofilter when I'm curious about the results it has 
> generated.  With "-r" and "-f" you can get a histogram by also using "-vv" 
> or you can get the full list of words and their scores with "-vvv".  The 
> histogram gives a visual display that I find informative.

I'll play with this and see if I can learn anything interesting.

-- 
Tracy Reed      http://www.ultraviolet.org
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