Thanks Bogofilter!

[JoeHill]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:18:28 -0400
David Relson got hold of an infinite number of monkeys to write:

> > Thanks, JoeHill!  Warms the heart to hear of successes like that.
> > 
> > You might edge your spam cutoff a bit higher and see if the false
> > positives get rare without increasing the false negatives by much.
> > Changing it by maybe half a percent at a time shouldn't hurt.
> 
> Joe,
> 
> If you're using the '-p' (passthrough) option, you can look at the
> X-Bogosity lines of the 5 messages (2 false negatives and 3 false
> positives), see what their scores are, and determine if changing
> cutoffs is feasible.
> 
> We're always glad to hear glowing praise of the tool.  Thanks.

NP, guys! It took me a long time to get over my irrational fear of Bayesian
filtering (control freak?), but I'm glad I gave it a shot. A lot of friendly
assistance from this list and easy-to-follow docs (which had to be pointed out
to me a coupla times...heh) and I'm a 'Bogofan'...

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