nan in bogofilter stats

[Stephen Davies]

Thanks for the feedback David.

I get:

bogoutil -w wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT
                                 spam   good
.MSG_COUNT                     312870      1

What does this actually mean?

Cheers,
Stephen


On Wednesday 19 November 2008 10:32:40 David Relson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:38:25 +1030
>
> Stephen Davies wrote:
> > Recently I am seeing large numbers of false Ham results from my
> > well-trained bogofilter.
> >
> > The following is the output of a bogofilter scan of an obvious spam
> > mail.
> >
> > The Ham result seems to result from the "nan" values.
> >
> > Where do these come from and how do I fix it?
> >
> > Cheers and thanks,
> > Stephen Davies
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> > [scldad at mustang bogofilter]$ bogoutil -w wordlist.db Viagra
> >                                  spam   good
> > Viagra                          12385      0
>
> Hello Stephen,
>
> It sounds like your wordlist is b0rked. "nan" shows up when .MSG_COUNT
> has 0 for either spam or ham counts.  run
>
> 	"bogoutil -w wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT"
>
> to test this.  If a zero shows up, then it's time to replace your
> wordlist with a backup copy.
>
> HTH,
>
> David
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