Bug in tuning.sh?
Boris 'pi' Piwinger
3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Fri Jun 13 10:19:46 CEST 2003
Greg Louis wrote:
> The purpose of getco is to get the cutoff required for a given target
> number of false positives. The way it works is
>
> Evaluate the nonspams with a cutoff of 0.10 so that most will be
> treated as spam.
>
> Sort the differences of those scores from 1 (which is how they are
> printed by bogofilter).
>
> Take the score that is $target values down from the top of that list;
> if it's less than 0.000001, move down the list till we find one that
> isn't.
>
> Subtract that from 1 and return it as the cutoff to use when evaluating
> spam.
OK, but if this is how it works, why is 0.1 given to the
function as a parameter. It should be a constant defined in
the function.
pi
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