A newbie question about training

[Rob Tanner]

Thanks!

--On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 05:28:46 PM -0400 David Relson
<relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> At 04:42 PM 7/23/03, Rob Tanner wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Got bogofilter up and running and gave it some training.  Already it's
>> at 99%!!  We are currently delivering whether it's labelled as SPAM or
>> not, and prepending the flag "[SPAM]" to the subject line by setting the
>> spam_subject_tag in bogofilter.cf.
>> 
>> My question is whether bogofilter also examines the subject line when
>> analysing the message when training, and if so, do I need to remove that
>> "[SPAM]" flag prior to feeding the message to bogofilter, or does it
>> sutomatically discount it?
> 
> Rob,
> 
> Glad you've got bogofilter running.  You can safely leave the "[SPAM]"
> tag in place when you train.  The result will be that token subj:SPAM
> will have a spam score of 1.0 and any incoming messages that have
> "Subject: ... SPAM ..." will have a token with a high score.  Since
> bogofilter's score is based on _all_ the tokens and the highness/lowness
> of each token's score, having that one token won't have much effect.
> You should be fine.
> 
> Note also that bogofilter doesn't require any particular token be
> present, e.g. subj:SPAM, in order to score a message as spam.  It scores
> what _is_ present in the message.
> 
> David
> 




Rob Tanner
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
rtanner+cyrus at linfield.edu