Re: Help needed with a "wedged" CRM114 installation

[email protected] said:
> Martin Lucina <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > Should I also upgrade to the latest codebase? If so, which one? I'm
> > currently using 20090807-BlameThorstenAndJenny (TRE 0.7.5 (LGPL)).
> 
> Only if you want the SVM classifier.  The base classifer (Markovian) 
> is unchanged.

I'm currently using the default from mailfilter.cf: clf: /osb unique microgroom/

Do I have anything to gain from SVM? (Speaking as a user, and slightly
distracted at the moment, so I haven't read up on it)

> > Assuming the various different Korean character sets all have what renders
> > as "space" on my screen in the same place as "ascii space", which is a
> > pretty safe assumption, then yes. Hangul is alphabet-based rather than
> > glyph-based, the only reason it looks superficially similar to Japanese is
> > that they use the trick of combining multiple charaters to form a single
> > glyph.
> 
> Go into EMACS or another byte-accurate editor (or a hex editor) and
> check!  It can be quite important.  (i.e. is there really a hex 0x20
> between each word?  Or does the Hangul representation you get have a
> "space" in the glyphset that is NOT 0x20, and it gets used because that
> way you don't have to change glyphsets twice for every word.

It's definitely 0x20.

> > Alternatively, given that the volume of mail I get in Korean is quite low,
> > is there a way to tell the system to just pass through mail from certain
> > senders, completely ignoring it for training purposes?
> 
> Yes, there is.  That's what the whitelist is for.  Although one might regard 
> it as "cheating", I am a firm believer in "whatever gets you through
> the night."

Same here. I'll see what happens when I retrain and if the problem persists
will just add the Koreans to the whitelist.

Martin
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