On 18 Mar 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed bogofilter about 10 days ago and have been extremely > > impressed. Previously with spamassassin I was getting several > > false-negatives daily but now I hardly ever get even one. The training > > scheme seems to be very effective. The same applies to false-positives; > > there were a few to start with but those, too, have now been eliminated. > > Thanks Anthony. That's just what I was looking for. > > A couple of interesting data points from learning on my corpus which > contains 90,000 ham and 200 spam messages. The spambox just got > cleaned out unfortunately, but just as unfortunate, I'll have a couple > of thousand in a week or two so training will be quick: > > bogofilter took 52 minutes to build: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 wohler users 73723904 2003-03-18 08:46 goodlist.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 wohler users 581632 2003-03-18 08:46 spamlist.db > > spamprobe took 297 minutes to build: > > -rw------- 1 wohler users 484311040 2003-03-17 22:36 sp_words > > sa-learn (--no-build on each folder followed by a single --rebuild) > took 154 minutes to build: > > -rw------- 1 wohler users 157448 2003-03-18 16:27 bayes_journal > -rw------- 1 wohler users 707 2003-03-18 16:27 bayes_msgcount > -rw------- 1 wohler users 10264576 2003-03-18 16:27 bayes_seen > -rw------- 1 wohler users 82419712 2003-03-18 16:27 bayes_toks > > In addition to your observations, bogofilter also wins on the space > and time angles.. >
I tried sa-learn previously and didn't have much luck. Even though I gave it over 2000 Ham emails to learn and about 700 Spam it still didn't seem to be doing much. I continue to be happy with bogofilter. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
