tri-state classification

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Thu Oct 28 00:09:33 CEST 2004


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:16:28 -0500
Bill McClain wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:45:40 -0400
> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:
> 
> > I propose that bogofilter's default configuration be changed to use
> > tri-state classification with a conservative ham cutoff of 0.4 and
> > with bogosity tags of "Spam", "Ham", and "Unsure".
> 
> A very minor point. The tag line for spam will then have both "Spam"
> and"spamicity" in it. Anticipating the change I added "Spam" to my MUA
> filters, but since the default (for Sylpheed) is not case-sensitive,
> the rule caught 100% of the mail because of "spamicity". Easy to fix,
> of course: just use a case-sensitive match, or add a more
> sophisticated match.

Bill,

Me?  I'm a Sylpheed-Claws user.  I have it filter on "X-Bogosity: Spam"
and "X-Bogosity: Unsure".  Including "X-Bogosity:" in the match string
prevents confusion with other stuff in the message header.

David



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