16.2 not as effective

[David Relson]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 01:13:44 -0000 (GMT)
Andrew Norman wrote:

...[snip]...

> Thankfully I archive _all_ my spam and ham, so I have plenty of
> training material...
> 
> I've been putting off upgrading to a recent version for a while now,
> because I know it will take me half a day or more to implement it.

When you switch over, the easiest thing is to create a totally new
wordlist using your accumulated ham and spam.  Something like:

  bogofilter -d . -s -M -B spam*.mbx
  bogofilter -d . -n -M -B ham*.mbx
  mv ./wordlist.db /your/bogofilter/dir/

is all you need from "build from scratch".

> > P.S.  0.16.4 (current) is at least as good as 0.15.13 (stable). 
> > There have been changes to the supporting programs, but nothing of
> > significance to the bogofilter binary itself.  The newer version
> > will also more closely match the code in the next release series
> > (0.17.x). I'd recommend using 0.16.4 :-)
> 
> Great, whether or no I should jump to 0.16.x was a question I was just
> about to ask ;-)

Version 0.17.0 is "Code Clean-up Release - Phase 2".  All the code that
was deprecated in 0.16.0 is being removed.  The overall goal is a code
clean-up so that version 1.0 is a solid platform for bogofilter's
future.

Details of the changes for 0.16.0 are in file RELEASE.NOTES-0.16.  It's
recommended reading for anybody upgrading bogofilter from an old version
or who's not using bogofilter's default options.

Cheers!

David