linux-kernel - Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

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Message-ID: <452230BD.8050902@aitel.hist.no>
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:43:25 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
CC:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

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
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