Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Chaney <mdchaney(at)michaelchaney(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?
Date: 2004-04-21 19:40:50
Message-ID: 20040421164028.V32445@ganymede.hub.org
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote:

> The one thing I had *not* been doing, but started to do as of last
> night, is to use the false-negatives to explicitly train the Bayesian
> filter. It was easy enough to set up. I created an hourly cron job as
> follows:
>
> /usr/bin/sa-learn --mbox --spam /path/to/false-neg.mbox
>
> Now I just drop all false negatives into that mailbox, and clean them
> out periodically. Hopefully that will make a significant improvement.

This, for me, has made the big difference, since the false-negatives don't
get autolearned :(

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