bogofilter's default algorithm

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Greg Louis wrote:

>> >>1. does bogofilter -u handle the unknown case (i.e. does nothing)?
>> >
>> >Correct.  Ham and spam go into the wordlists before and unsure does nothing.
>> 
>> That makes it unusable to me. How can I make sure, that
>> everything is either good or bad?
>> 
> Set the spam cutoff and nonspam cutoff to the same so there's no unsure
> interval.  Probably something between 0.95 and 0.99 will do what you
> want.

What is the default? And how would you suggest to set it? Do
I really need to set up a config file?

I think I should stay with spam cutoff and recognize
everything below as good.

> A note for people who understand the value of unsure: it seems to me
> that -u does exactly the wrong thing.  What you want to do is sort the
> unsures and train on them; there's little to be gained by training on
> only the messages we already got right.

Well, I did the following so far (and want to continue this
way). I automatically train with the decisions bogofilter
makes. If needed, I correct them.

pi