Maintenance Best Practices

[Adam Mercer]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >I initially train my database with, at the moment, around 4000 known
> >spams and 4000 known hams. Then I train only on mistakes. So far this
> >seems to be working quite well with only a few false negatives - no
> >false positives yet.
> 
> You're getting excellent results.  Glad to hear that the default values are 
> doing so well for you.
> 
> Bogofilter _may_ be able to do even better for you.  The new stable 
> release, bogofilter-0.13.6.1, has revised directions on how to find, given 
> _your_ email, the optimum combination of the spam_cutoff, min_dev, and robs 
> parameters.  If you have your messages in readily available .mbx files, you 
> may want to experiment with the scripts in bogofilter/tuning.

I based this training on Gregs tuning howto, I'll take a look at
0.13.6.1

Cheers

Adam