Re: Large spam-only .idata file available

>> On 04 May 2003 23:03:48 -0400, 
>> "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[email protected]> said:

J> "Karl Vogel" <[email protected]> writes:

   >> The only real change is the number of spam messages used to generate
   >> the spam-only .idata file mentioned in the page.  I included Bruce
   >> Guenter's collection (45,000 messages) and saw an immediate
   >> improvement in my mailbox.

J> Is 45 thousand enough to give solid results, or would it be helpful to
J> have an additional twenty-six-thousand-message spam collection?

   A few thousand more is always good...

J> I currently have 15302 messages in spam.general, 4298 in
J> spam.filtered.charset.chinese.gb2312, 1793 in
J> spam.filtered.charset.euc_kr, and 5084 in spam.filtered.charset.ks_c_

   I don't need any of the charset stuff; any incoming message with a given
   percentage of 8-bit characters is automatically filed as spam.

J> I'm using the nnml storage backend, which means each message is a file
J> and each folder/group is a directory, so I could tar or zip the whole
J> spam heirarchy up pretty easily.

   Feel free to tar up the spam.general collection and send it on.
   I don't know how snotty my ISP is about quotas; could you do the old
   tar - gzip - base64/uuencode routine?

   Thanks.

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