For users without corpora

[Tom Anderson]

From: "Todd Slater" <dontodd at columbus.rr.com>
> What are your thoughts on using bogofilter with a person who doesn't
> have a collection of spam and ham mails? Is it better to provide them
> with a collection of both for initial training and then train on error,
> or to ask them to wait until they've got enough spam and ham mails to do
> the training?

Just set reasonable cutoffs, use -u, and start training on error from 
scratch.  This is the least surprising way (smallest learning curve) for new 
users.  If they see a spam come through, or a ham marked as spam or an 
unsure if using tri-state, send it off to be registered appropriately.  If a 
ham or spam is correctly classified, do nothing.  The hardest thing to do in 
this case is to get in the habit of registering instead of just deleting 
spam.

See my program bfproxy (http://www.orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/bfproxy) 
for simple training via email.

Tom