Performance of Bogofilter, etc.

[Jesse Trucks]

I started with about 500 spam messages I saved from my own spam, then
ran my ~33,000 saved ham messages (all my own mail going back a few
years) and the tiny bit of spam. The obvious result was a lot of false
negatives, but after 4 months, I have over 14,000 of my own spam saved.
I only get about 5 or 6 false negatives (spam in my inbox) on an average
day now, but bogofilter catches close to 100 real spam. I havent seen a
false positive in over two months, either. I get ~200 ham a day, and
though I haven't run the exact numbers, its the best solution I can
find.

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

> Peter Bishop wrote:
>
> > What you *do* need several hundred ham and spam messages to do the
> > training. You can get sample spam messages from ftp.spamarchive.org
>
> Don't!
>
> > Should the bogofilter package provide a pre-built database that can be used
> > as a starting point? (e.g. trained with typical spam and maybe some fairly
> > bland ham messages)
>
> No, the beauty of bogofilter is that it adjust to your
> individual mail exposure.
>
> pi
>
>
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