On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:25:26 +1300, "Tony Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[POPfile / Outclass]
>> Yeah, it works pretty well too, although as far as I can
>> tell, it doesn't classify quite as accurately as SpamBayes.
>> I have it set to sort into Ham, Spam and Unwanted (junk that
>> isn't really spam) but I keep an eye on the spam folder with
>> SpamBayes; used on its own, POPfile suffers the occasional
>> false positive, which I've *never* had with SpamBayes after a
>> decent amount of training.
>
>Do you have POPfile doing other classification (work, home, etc), or just
>these three?
Just those three. Really all I want the feature for is to remove
unwanted-but-not-spam messages - viruses and misdirected bounces for
instance - from the spambin, because I report a fair amount of spam through
SpamCop and don't want to be reporting the wrong stuff. :)
>I haven't ever used POPfile, but I would imagine I would be
>somewhat more forgiving of mistakes made by software that was trying to do
>more than just a yes-spam/no-ham(/buggered_if_I_know-unsure) decision.
Yep. Since it attaches no particular significance to the categories - you
can call them whatever you like - I'm assuming it does its classification in
one go, not through some sort of decision tree, a la
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home
/
wanted
/ \
/ work
all mail
\ spam
\ /
unwanted
\
other junk
which I'm guessing would scale better to large numbers of categories.
>BTW, does POPfile choose just one of the categories, or can you have it
>select multiple ones? It wouldn't be much use with something like Outlook,
>but with mailers that work with a 'label' type system, where a message can
>be in multiple views/folders (gmail/Thunderbird?) that would seem pretty
>handy.
One category only. Messages it's not sure about are marked as
"unclassified".
-- Mat.
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