Training question

[Matthias Andree]

Am 11.05.2009, 07:15 Uhr, schrieb Stephen Davies <scldad at sdc.com.au>:

> One of the very common types of spam recently is weight loss by taking  
> Acai
> berries.
>
> I have received thousands of spams with this in the subject and/or body  
> and
> have fed then all into bogofilter as spam (after first reversing the  
> initial
> ham entry).
>
> My word  list now includes:
>                                  spam   good
> Acai                            16084    321
>                                  spam   good
> subj:Acai                        5464    352
>
>
> Despite this, I still see:
> -bash-3.2# bogofilter -vvv < spam1 | grep Acai
> "subj:Acai"                        5816  0.029983  0.015939  0.347094 -
> "Acai"                            16406  0.027416  0.046919  0.631186 -
>
> What do I have to do to get these (and similar) words recognised as  
> definitely
> spam?

How come that >300 of these have been scored as good?

If you are using bogofilter with "-u", be sure to THOROUGHLY retrain all  
unsures and mis-classified messages. If you cannot or do not want to do  
that, do not run bogofilter in "-u" mode.

HTH

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Matthias Andree