What is spam?

[Matt Christian]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> [...] 
> Sounds like you're using auto-update (or other mechanism to register
> _all_ spam).  Along with "-u", I have "thresh_update=0.01" in my config
> file.  It tells bogofilter to skip autoupdating if the spamicity is
> within 0.01 of 0.000000 (surely ham) or 1.000000 (surely ham).  This
> capability was added to slow the database's growth rate.  It will (I
> believe) also effect skewing effects.

David,

Would you consider using the wording you have in your reply (above) to
describe thresh_update in bogofilter.cf.example?  It seems much clearer
to me than the current verbage (below).  Perhaps that's because it
references the example of 0.01 rather than "value".

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#### Auto-update threshold
#
#       When using '-u' (auto-update), update wordlist if
#       value less than score and score less than 1-value.
#
## thresh_update=0.01

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Otherwise thresh_update seems to hardly get a mention in the rest of the
bogofilter documentation.

Thanks,

Matt

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