boosting

2005-05-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
How are the rule weights for spamassassin generated? There is a method called boosting with several associated algorithms which is specifically aimed at combining the outputs of a collection of weak classifiers into a more accurate classifier. It seems somewhat relevant, has it been tried?

Re: boosting

2005-05-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
might change in a situation where misclassification costs are asymmetrical as with spam classification. Frederik On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:25:16PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: Frederik Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How are the rule weights for spamassassin generated? http

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:10:12AM +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote: Frederik Eaton wrote: Is it possible to configure spamassassin to get back the original functionality of only modifying headers of spam 1. Look up the doc on rewrite_header and report_safe in man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf or other

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
Yes, the version I have installed is 3.0.2. On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:19:23PM +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote: Frederik Eaton wrote: As developers, you might want to add that information to the part of the man page I quoted I assume that you are referring to the released version

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
2. Any further questions about this or similar topics should be directed to the SpamAssassin users mailing list, not to here. This list is for developer discussions only. Don't even reply to this with an apology or a thank you. I'll pretend that you have replied politely and leave it at that

header modification

2005-03-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
The spamassassin manual page says: If an incoming message is tagged as spam, instead of modifying the original message, SpamAssassin will create a new report message and attach the original message as a message/rfc822 MIME part (ensuring the original message is

spamc interface suggestions

2004-09-25 Thread Frederik Eaton
Hi, I've been using spamc/spamd as part of my mail filter, and I've run into a few problems with the interface it provides. 1. I want to start a spamd process (as myself) if one is not already running. At first I thought spamc should at least have an option to automatically spawn a spamd if