new file --- GETTING.STARTED

Tom Anderson tanderso at oac-design.com
Mon Oct 25 18:13:16 CEST 2004


> --- Ongoing training ---
>
>    Bogofilter can only do a good job if it has accurate and
>    comprehensive information in its wordlist.
>
>    As time goes by and bogofilter classifies messages for you, it
>    will encounter problems time because it doesn't have enough
>    information to correctly classify each and every message.  It's
>    important to check message classifications!
>
>    "False negatives", i.e. spam classified as ham, are easy since
>    they'll appear in your inbox and be noticed.  "False positives"
>    are important to find because they're messages you want!  All
>    messages in these groups should be used to train bogofilter.
>
>    Filtering "Unsure" messsages into a separate folder (or mailbox),
>    and separating them into spam and ham, gives a good set of
>    messages for training (using bogofilter's "-s" and "-n" flags).

You may want to diverge into, or link to, different methods of ongoing 
training, including IMAP and bfproxy.

Tom





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