Re: Tuning bogogilter

David Relson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.bogofilter.general
Organization Osage Software Systems, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:21:12 -0800
barsalou wrote:

...[snip]...
 
> Thanks David,
> 
> I cleared my wordlist and retrained it from my corpus.  Also found  
> that the newer version I was using used the word 'Spam' instead of  
> 'Yes' in the X-Bogosity line.  So procmail wasn't doing the sorting  
> properly.

Goodness, you must have been using an _old_ version of bogofilter.  The
change in default wording from "Yes, No" to "Spam, Ham, Unsure" was
_years_ ago.

In any case, 'tis good you found the problem!

> So things are working more like I'd expect them to.
> 
> You said using the same spam corpus will skew the results...but it  
> isn't clear to me in what way it will do that.  I assume you mean
> that it will mark words as being more spammy than they should be...is
> that right?

Yes.
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