[bogofilter] Re: Docs available that are understandable by non-gurus?

[Bob George]

Wayne K9DI wrote:

> [...]  This filter was 
> reccomended to me by the tech at my local ISP and it sounds great, but 
> I've only found one "fly in the ointment" so to speak.  I've read and 
> re=read the man page(s) and each time come away more confused.  Is there 
> hidden away somewhere a set of docs a non-guru (or a blind man) can 
> easily follow?

I suspect you're probably getting hit with the biggest problem with open 
source tools: options. I'm not a developer, but here's my (admittedly 
non-authoritative) experience with bogofilter:

It's a tool that does a very specific function (differentiating spam 
from non-spam), but that's it. To use it effectively, you typically will 
want to combine it with other tools to suit your specific needs.

So now we have to ask some questions back: How are you planning to use 
bogofilter? Are you wanting to incoporate it into procmail to sort 
incominb messages? What sort of system are you using? Is this for 
individual, or site-wide use?

 > Don't get me wrong the man page does a GREAT job of
> explaining the "why" of how this great filter works, but, to me, falls very 
> short in explaining the how of the nuts and bolts of setting up and 
> using bogofilter.

Don't get discouraged. My experience is that bogofilter is like any 
other fine tool. It can take a few tries to get the hang of it, and it 
doesn't have some of the chrome and glitz of others. But once you master 
it, you can do things quickly with it that'll take much longer with others.

- Bob
(who just re-trained bayes in a matter of minutes with bogofilter, then 
waited hours for others.)