confessions of a newbie

[David Relson]

At 01:51 PM 5/12/03, Charlie Shub wrote:

>I installed bogofilter about a month ago
>
>then,
>
>per ---- http://www.bgl.nu/bogofilter/training2.html
>
>         cd spam
>         bogofilter -sv < spam-found
>         Created directory /users/ludell/users/cdash/.bogofilter .
>         # 102493 words, 418 messages
>
>         cd ~/mail
>         cat [a-hj-np-rt-w]* ia* ie* op* s[acioty]* | bogofilter -nv
>         # 1373824 words, 4564 messages
>
>and add to .procmail
>
>         # filter mail through bogofilter, tagging it as spam and
>         # updating the word lists
>
>         :0fw
>         | bogofilter -u -e -p
>
>         # if bogofilter failed, return the mail to the queue, the MTA will
>         # retry to deliver it later
>         # 75 is the value for EX_TEMPFAIL in /usr/include/sysexits.h
>
>         :0e
>         { EXITCODE=75 HOST }
>
>         # file the mail to spam-bogofilter if it's spam.
>
>         :0:
>         * ^X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter
>         spam-bogofilter
>
>
>Then i experimented a while and ended up making a single small change
>in spam_cutoff
>         #
>         #       decreased to .90 4/25/02 by cdash
>         #       decreased to .2550 5/1/02 by cdash
>         #
>         #spam_cutoff = 0.95
>         #
>         spam_cutoff = 0.2550
>
>
>Since may 1, i've had 4 false negatives
>                       0 false positives
>                       164 true positives
>
>I think that's pretty good.
>For the false negatives, I send them through bogofilter -Ns
>
>that is absolutely close enough for me
>I get about 1000 e-mails a month
>
>charlie shub   University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
>cdash at cs.uccs.edu               http://cs.uccs.edu/~cdash
>(719) 262-3492                  (fax) 262-3369
>
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