help using the new ignore wordlist feature

[David Relson]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:04:01 -0400
Tom Anderson wrote:

> From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> > Putting the above tokens into ignore.db results in bogofilter's
> > score being based more on the body of the message than on its header
> > and gives more accurate results -- and _that's_ how I use
> > ignorelists!
> 
> Once I find time to upgrade to the version which supports ignore
> lists, I'll put in all of the month and day abbreviations, as dates
> are always biased one way or the other for no good reason.  A spam is
> not more likely to be a ham just because it arrives on a Monday or in
> February, no matter how many hams I got last Monday or last February! 
> And I can't remove dates prior to going through bogofilter because
> mail clients use them for sorting. Therefore an ignore list is the
> ideal solution for this.
> 
> Tom

Hi Tom,

Dates may well be a useful application of ignore lists.  I'd suggest
checking their spamicity scores to see if it's worth doing.  A command
like the following would give you that info:

 bogoutil -p wordlist.db Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec


Regards,

David