[glouis at dynamicro.on.ca: Re: Dealing with wordlist mails]

[Greg Louis]

----- Forwarded message from Greg Louis <glouis at dynamicro.on.ca> -----

On 20040128 (Wed) at 1941:18 -0000, Peter Bishop wrote:
> 
> > Anyone who uses -u should already be aware that not doing corrections
> > will tend to screw up their database.  This is true for any min_dev less
> > than like 0.9.  But in that case, what's the point of using -u?  Using
> > bogofilter is not an automatic process.  No matter what, you have to do
> > corrections, but especially if using -u.  
> 
> I agree

Except a min_dev of 0.5 or greater is singularly useless, given that
the score _can't_ be farther than 0.5 from 0.5 ;-)
 
> In fact, I don't think that the default setting in the procmailrc 
> example should have -u.
> 
> I think the recommendation should be 
> - initial bulk training with a corpus
> - followed by **manual** "train on error"

Apologies for the me-too posting, but I can't resist agreeing publicly
and wholeheartedly with this suggestion.

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Replied to the author instead of to the list, sorry ;)

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