many spams suddenly getting through

[David Relson]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:41:54 -0300
Trevor Smith wrote:

> On September 13, 2004 3:45 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
> > Make note of the highest scoring ham, and set your spam cutoff above
> > that to prevent false positives.  Lower the spam cutoff over time.
> >  You can also lower your ham cutoff over time so that some of your
> > hams end up in your
> >...
> 
> Thanks, that sounds like a logical explanation and strategy!

Trevor,

Have you checked to see _how_ bogofilter is scoring the tokens in the
messages?  You _might_ find that you've misclassified a message, thus
making bogofilter think some spammish words are hammish.

Try running "bogofilter -vvv < msg" with 1 of the messages to see how
bogofilter's scoring it.  The format of the "-vvv" output is described
in the FAQ.

HTH,

David