On Mar 20, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Eric Broch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your welcome. Since November, I've created a much easier automated install 
> here. Be sure to look at the Readme file. And, as always, check the script.

Hmm. That seems to be an FTP link. I tried logging on as 'guest', but it 
doesn't seem to want to talk to me.

I'm not really convinced by dspam yet. Untrained, it classifies everything as 
'Innocent'. I fed it a massive corpus of spam and it then classified everything 
as 'Spam'. So I blew everything away and started over. This time, I've been 
feeding it an unrecognized spam (which is to say, all of it) in correction mode 
(i.e. --source=error). This is having a limited effect. After feeding it many 
hundreds of spams, it still believes that all my spam is actually 'Innocent', 
but at least I've shaken its confidence a bit - it's now only 85% convinced 
that 'Pro Viagra for Men' is a valid message.

It looks like I will have a lot more training to do before I can persuade it to 
successfully recognize any spam at all … and then only for the particular user 
that I've trained. I'm also concerned that many of the messages I see are 
filled with hash buster text, which is designed specifically to dodge and 
poison statistical filters like dspam.

Apologies if this is slightly off-topic, but given that dspam is under 
consideration for future QMT releases, I felt that I should share my 
experience. It's certainly not looking like a magic bullet to me at the moment.

Angus

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