Performance of Bogofilter, etc.

[Jesse Trucks]

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

> > I started with about 500 spam messages I saved from my own spam, then
> > ran my ~33,000 saved ham messages
>
> OK, that sounds dangerous. I guess you should try to have
> roughly (give or tage a magnitude;-) the same amount of
> messages. Or you use a script which does not really care
> about the input size like my training script.

As I mentioned, I did get a high false negative count for a while. Also,
I didn't understand what I was getting into at the time.

>
> > (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,
>
> Still a log. Have you tried bogotune?

I haven't tried it yet, but I plan on investigating next week when I
have more time.

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