GETTING.STARTED (rev 2)

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

David Relson said:

>> > 6. Tuning bogofilter
>> > --------------------
>> >
>> >     Once you've use bogofilter for a while, you may wish to optimize
>> >     its classification parameters.  The bogotune utility uses your
>> >     wordlist and additional ham and spam messages to check a large
>> >     variety of possible parameter values and find what'll work best
>> >     for your environment.  For more info, read the bogotune man page
>> >     and file bogofilter-tuning.HOWTO.html.
>>
>> This then applies only to some training methods.
>
> Eh??  Bogotune uses the wordist, and the ham and spam corpora you
> specify, and then does a rather exhaustive scan of possible scoring
> parameters to find what gives the best results.  As you know, bogotune
> has minimum requirements for number of messages registered in
> wordlist.db and minimum numbers of messages for the ham and spam corpora
> used in the tuning process.

Right, so it is not usable for pure train-on-error approaches.

> The only effect that training method has is whether or not enough
> messages are present in the wordlist for bogotune to work successfully.

There is still this unsolved question if tuning works for train-on-error
(or it becomes somehow circular). My guess is that it works, but is
practically impossible.

> cc: bogofilter mailing list

Thanks, it was too late at night, so I forgot.

pi