Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964842AbWJCJqu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:46:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964843AbWJCJqu (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:46:50 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:11422 "HELO embla.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964842AbWJCJqt (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 05:46:49 -0400 Message-ID: <452230BD.8050902@aitel.hist.no> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:43:25 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , Lee Revell , Matti Aarnio , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc References: <1159539793.7086.91.camel@mindpipe> <20061002100302.GS16047@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <1159802486.4067.140.camel@mindpipe> <45212F39.5000307@mbligh.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/