Re: Using multiple spam categories

"Karl Vogel" <[email protected]>:

> I've noticed a slight decrease in filtering effectiveness when you jam
> too many messages into two few ifile categories.

this is true.

> ifile was a real timesaver here; I grabbed 10 messages that had gotten
> through, used them to create a small .idata using the category "fraud",
> added some valid mail as a comparison, and ran ifile against my entire
> spam collection to find anything similar.  This gave me just over 1000
> hits with very few false matches.  Moving those 1000 messages into
> the fraud category and recreating .idata has effectively weeded those
> puppies out.

did you make a script to automatically analyze ifile's output here, or
did you just use something like "C=`ifile -c`" and file into category
C?  if you have a cool script for this kind of thing, please share :)

clemens