Re: bogofilter behavior

[Harry Putnam]

Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 03 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> The bogofilter mail list seems to be pretty dead.  
>
> On <URL:http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.bogofilter.general/> the last
> messages are 3 days old.  (I didn't see any message from you on the
> list.)

For your amatuer detective needs : )...
I am subscribed but my messages .. (2 now) have never been posted.  (Its
been 2days now).  I've seen no traffic in those days.  That qualifies
for `pretty dead' to me.

>
>> In bogo_spam.in group some false positives occur and I run them back
>> thru bogofilter according to my reading of the man pages, this should
>> correct any misfiling that occured in bogo data base.  
>>
>> `bogofilter -v -Sn < MSG_NUM (a false positive file name)
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> You meant "false negative" or you should use "-N" (if I understand

No, I've been using it wrong...

> correctly)?  "false positive" means "a ham message classified as spam
> by the filter".

I see now from your quote of man page that I've been misunderstanding
the -S.  Should have been using -N.  Thanks.

I've not hooked it up inside gnus since I'm thinking of dropping
bogofilter in favor of Spamassassins built in bayes stuff.

Do you have any comments as to the pros or cons of either?