New user and question

[Thomas Anderson]

On 10/25/2010 12:51 PM, Doug wrote:
> I am new to Bogofilter. Had been using Spam Assassin for years and wanted to try

Welcome!

> My problem is the unsure's are not going down and the majority of them have
> Viagra in the subject. It is not obfuscated in any way.  I see few if any Viagra
> emails in the spam mail.  Am I doing something wrong? I have probably feed
> several hundred or more unsure's like this so far. Is there a way to strongly
> add a word.

I recommend training to exhaustion.  That is, when a false positive, 
false negative, or unsure shows up, first you train it, then you check 
it again as if the same exact email arrived another time, and if it 
still doesn't classify correctly, train it again -- repeat until it 
classifies correctly.

I added the "x" command-line option to my helper application bfproxy in 
order to automate this process.  You should have received bfproxy in 
your bogofilter contrib directory, or you can get it here:

http://orderamidchaos.com/bogofilter/bfproxy

Using this exhaustive training method ensures that you will deal with as 
few similar emails over and over again.  It is equivalent to "strongly" 
adding all of the spammy and/or hammy words respectively in an email by 
increasing their counts until they actually affect the classification.

Tom