Linus is dubious... but we get some praise

[David Relson]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 07:25:41 -0500
Greg Louis wrote:

> There's an interesting thread on the linux kernel mailing list --
> off-topic for them but interesting for us.  A good starting point is
> here:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.3/0106.html

...[snip]...

> And then comes this jewel, highly recommended reading for
> bogofilterers:
> 
>  "A lot of testing has been done on these filters (see for example
>  http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/background.html) with a very large
>  email corpus. If you haven't looked at bayes filters recently, or
>  have only been looking at the simplistic ones, then I think you might
>  have better luck trying again."
> 
> The spambayes page, besides being a good overview, has links to a few
> of those invaluable discussion threads that I and others have been
> mentioning over the last year.  Unfortunately, it then points
> generally to (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/) "the
> spambayes mailing list" in which one has to do one's own spelunking.

Indeed, a lot of ideas and testing have gone into spambayes and there
have been many interesting discussions.  Sometimes it surprises me that
bogofilter, with its small core team, does so well!  Evidently we have
enough of what's needed.

Good work, fellows!