Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

From: Helge Hafting
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 05:47:07 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
If you got rid of "slut" and "schoolgirl" that'd get rid of half of it.

The problem with bogo-filter is that THE WHOLE CONCEPT IS FLAWED.
Perhaps, but it works remarkably well anyway. After training with a
few thousand messages of each kind the amount of wrong
decisions is low. Each month I retrain the filter with the 20
or so messages it wasn't able to classify. (I sort into
spam, nonspam, and "dubious".)

Helge Hafting
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