What is spam?

[David Relson]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 15:27:58 -0500
Matt Christian wrote:

> 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".

Matt,

How does this sound:

  Skip autoupdating '-u' if the spamicity is within "value" of 
  0.000000 (surely ham) or 1.000000 (surely ham).

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

That's true of many of the config file options.  Likely, the
documentation could use a man page for bogofilter.cf!

I personally dislike writing, so if you'd care to volunteer ...

Regards,

David