[bogofilter-announce] bogofilter-0.13.5 - new current release

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Greg Louis wrote:

>> robs=0.001

>> 111

>> False positives:
>> 4
>> ------------------------------------------
>> robs=0.01

>> False negatives:
>> 90

>> False positives:
>> 5
>> ------------------------------------------
>> 
>> This again shows for my messages, that the new robs is worse.
> 
> It shows nothing of the sort.  It shows that you didn't adjust the spam
> cutoff, which must be done, because changing s changes the distribution
> of scores.  That's all it shows.
> 
> When comparing different s values, you need to adjust the spam cutoff
> so your fp rate stays the same, then compare fn.  Otherwise the
> comparison is meaningless.

Well, as I said, all the false positives have values of >.85
for the former and >.9 for the latter. Adjusting the cutoff
to cope with that would greatly increase false negatives.

pi