From: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:43:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452230BD.8050902@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610020933020.3952@g5.osdl.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 14:23 Spam, bogofilter, etc Lee Revell
2006-09-29 14:29 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-01 23:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-02 0:41 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-02 10:03 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-10-02 15:21 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 15:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-02 15:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 17:39 ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-03 3:37 ` dean gaudet
2006-10-03 4:05 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-02 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 17:19 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 18:07 ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-02 18:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-02 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 19:31 ` jdow
2006-10-02 19:31 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-02 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 22:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 17:32 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-02 21:33 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-03 8:08 ` John Graham-Cumming
2006-10-03 8:52 ` Howard Chu
2006-10-03 9:40 ` Devdas Bhagat
2006-10-03 9:43 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2006-10-03 10:50 ` Gordon Cormack
2006-10-02 17:34 ` Thomas Davis
2006-10-03 16:42 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-27 22:30 ` Oleg Verych
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-03 6:08 Paul Zimmerman
2006-10-03 12:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <20061003060346.55869.qmail@web80821.mail.yahoo.com>
2006-10-03 7:01 ` Neil Brown
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