A Tale of Two Sisters

[Tom Anderson]

Use "bogofilter -vvv" to figure out which tokens are causing the problem.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JoeHill" <joehill at sympatico.ca>
To: <bogofilter at bogofilter.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 7:55 PM
Subject: A Tale of Two Sisters


>
> Hi all,
>
> As you may gather from the subject this is about my two sisters, whom I've 
> been
> trying to train bogofilter as 'ham' (oh, the irony).
>
> It was kinda hit and miss for both, so I sat down today and did training 
> on a
> whole *whack* of mail from each sister (about 20MB each)
>
> One seems to be going okay:
>
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -vv < sister1
> X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=0.94.4
>   int  cnt   prob  spamicity histogram
>  0.00 3173 0.010475 0.005447 
> ################################################
>  0.10  142 0.113748 0.008133 ###
>  0.20    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.30    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.40    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.50    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.60    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.70    0 0.000000 0.008133
>  0.80  339 0.886811 0.107046 ######
>  0.90 3035 0.978600 0.491909 
> ##############################################
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -n < sister1
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -vv < sister1
> X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.94.4
>   int  cnt   prob  spamicity histogram
>  0.00 12691 0.007783 0.006979 
> ################################################
>  0.10  148 0.113356 0.008205 #
>  0.20    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.30    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.40    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.50    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.60    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.70    0 0.000000 0.008205
>  0.80  339 0.888703 0.055743 ##
>  0.90 1123 0.950223 0.220665 #####
>
> However, sister #2 is not faring as well:
>
>
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -vv < sister2
> X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=0.94.4
>   int  cnt   prob  spamicity histogram
>  0.00 1943 0.009352 0.007266 
> ################################################
>  0.10   49 0.114453 0.009570 ##
>  0.20    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.30    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.40    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.50    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.60    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.70    0 0.000000 0.009570
>  0.80   84 0.887220 0.073546 ###
>  0.90  487 0.972303 0.380932 #############
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -n < sister2
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -vv < sister2
> X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=0.94.4
>   int  cnt   prob  spamicity histogram
>  0.00 1947 0.006888 0.005492 
> ################################################
>  0.10   60 0.114236 0.008374 ##
>  0.20    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.30    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.40    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.50    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.60    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.70    0 0.000000 0.008374
>  0.80   72 0.887940 0.065235 ##
>  0.90  421 0.978003 0.368686 ###########
>
> Why would one seem to 'learn', and not the other (once again, irony, if 
> you knew
> my sisters :-\)
>
> -- 
> JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my 
> brethren,
> you did it to me." -- Jesus Christ
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