This one time, at band camp, Angus Lees wrote: >At Fri, 7 May 2004 11:04:55 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: >> I train it on all my spam and non-spam, and I train it every week on >> mail received during that week. (With a cronjob, I just need to make >> sure false negatives and positives are moved into an appropriate >> folder.) I don't delete the existing token database ever. > >.. so with all that manual spam/ham classification/archiving, is there >actually any point running an "automatic" spam filter anymore? > >>From what I can see any spam filter that needs training is missing the >point - but I've never actually run any of the Bayesian filters so its >purely ignorant prejudice ;)
I occasionally hit S in mutt which trains bogofilter and saves the message to my spam corpus. the reply, list-reply, and group-reply commands are bound to train bogofilter that the message i'm replying to is not spam. So, I only half-manually train my bogofilter, and that's the only filter i'm using. I rarely see spam get past my filters nowadays, and I rarely see false positives in my spambox on the few occasions that I check it. The time spent training my bogomonster is much less time than it takes to open the debian-devel folder and mark it all as read. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
