On Wed, 23 May 2007, Jim Maul wrote:
Duane Hill wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Abba Communications wrote:
Since the introduction of SA v3.2.0, bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam
appears to be -1.0.
from Duane
Duane and others....
With all sincere and due respect to the DEV's and their excellent hard
work...
I understand it takes a lot of work to maintain and appriciate the efforts
put forth.
Just how many places should this setting be???
Well, it version 3.1.8 it wasn't anywhere to be found in a configuration
file. You had to have the setting in place to deviate from 0.1.
So why not remove the setting from 10_default_prefs.cf (a core setting file
installed from the distribution) and have the code default do what it
should. Defaults are to handle issues where a setting isn't specified.
The code never changed. It still defaults to 0.1
Somewhere along the line, someone decided it should be -1. The only way to
change this is to:
1. Change the code and release a new version (stupid for such a small change)
2. Make the change in a conf file by specifying a new value and distribute
that change to all using sa-update.
Obviously, the devs chose option 2. What this in effect does is change the
default autolearn threshold for the SA installation. It however does not
change the default in the code as sa-update cannot update core SA code. It
also cannot update the documentation that comes with SA.
I can understand it being in some type of conditional statement in code if
the setting does not exist in the local.cf file, yet this is getting to be
a
tad confusing now...
It is somewhat confusing as if you were to read the documentation, it says
the default is 0.1. However, if you were to download SA and install it
without any modifications, the value that would be used for this threshold
would be -1. Being that devs can release conf changes which can alter
defaults, but they cannot update the documentation in this manner, what do
you suggest as an alternative? There really is no other way to do it.
So, yes, its confusing, but there really isnt a better way to do it.
You have 100% cleared up my confusion at least. Thanks for the response. I
go in peace and sorry for disturbing everyone on this petty thing I was
confused about.
