tuning [was: announce bogofilter-0.13.5]

[David Relson]

At 07:45 AM 6/4/03, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> >
> > 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

pi,

I'm willing to spend some time to modify the tunining scripts for ease of 
use if you're willing to be my tester.  That'll allow you to learn what 
bogofilter thinks are the proper robs and min_dev values for your email and 
will help make it easier for others to do the same.

Interested?

David