[Ifile-discuss] Re: Large spam-only .idata file available

[clemens fischer]

Preben Randhol <address@hidden>:

> Doesn't bogofilter also have some kind of English dictionary lookup
> system? Not very useful for me as a lot of the SPAM I get are
> languages other than English. Anyway I'm quite content with ifile. I
> get perhaps 2-5 false negatives out of about 25-30 SPAM messages
> each day. I don't find that bad as I filter mail from 5 high traffic
> mailinglist and about 10 of low traffic.

no dictionary in bogofilter, where do you have that idea from?  i find
the rate of more than 10% false negatives (spam ending up in the
ham-box) irritatingly high.  after training ifile i had a precision
better than 99%.  but it took me years for this  :)

  clemens