auto-update in 0.16.2

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Sun Jan 18 14:29:06 CET 2004


David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

>The underlying principle of auto-update ("-u") is that bogofilter _can_
>expand its ham and spam database.  Having done this for over a year, I
>recently noticed that most of the messages are scored 0 or 1 (to several
>significant digits).
>
>Thinking of these messages as "very, very easy to classify", I'm
>guessing that they offer very little unknown information, which makes
>them of little value in training.

Now this is very interesting. Of course, also here you will
need to correct errors, but then you have train on error
with security margins. I like the idea;-)

pi




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