Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote:

> The one thing I had *not* been doing, but started to do as of last
> night, is to use the false-negatives to explicitly train the Bayesian
> filter.  It was easy enough to set up. I created an hourly cron job as
> follows:
>
>    /usr/bin/sa-learn --mbox --spam /path/to/false-neg.mbox
>
> Now I just drop all false negatives into that mailbox, and clean them
> out periodically. Hopefully that will make a significant improvement.

This, for me, has made the big difference, since the false-negatives don't
get autolearned :(

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