help using the new ignore wordlist feature

[David Relson]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:48:10 -0400
Tom Anderson wrote:

> From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> > 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
> 
> I changed that to:
> bogoutil -p wordlist.db rcvd:Jan rcvd:Feb rcvd:Mar rcvd:Apr rcvd:May
> rcvd:Jun rcvd:Jul rcvd:Aug rcvd:Sep rcvd:Oct rcvd:Nov rcvd:Dec
> and:
> bogoutil -p wordlist.db head:Jan head:Feb head:Mar head:Apr head:May
> head:Jun head:Jul head:Aug head:Sep head:Oct head:Nov head:Dec
> 
> These two lists were quite different, and different from the first one
> too. And both of them have months which are very hammy or very spammy,
> but not always the same ones.  For example, rcvd:Jan has 158793 spam
> and 1131 ham for a score of 0.826102, while head:Jan has 3818 spam and
> 1314 ham for a score of 0.089524.  Neither of these ought to be so
> biased.  Even if spammers are inserting fake recieved lines with Jan
> in them most of the time, I still don't want this to detract from the
> hams I get in January. Nor do I want the fact that I generally receive
> more spam than ham to make hams seem more spammy in other months.  All
> dates should be ignored I think.

Go for it!!!