-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 June 2003 01:09 am, Luke Ravitch wrote: > On 2003-06-05 20:45, Anthony Ventimiglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's what I mean by buckets, Popfile lets you have as many as you want, > > which I like so I can sort normal mail, work related, mailing lists, > > spam, etc.. as many categories as I want. > > Well, you were right about bogofilter being "more *nixy" ;-) > > Normally I would use procmail rules for sorting based on mailing > lists, work related, etc. On the other hand, doing all that sorting > based on Bayesian filtering sounds pretty cool. And, for that matter, > such a capability probably wouldn't make bogofilter any less *nixy. > It would still be doing one thing (Bayesian filtering) and (hopefully) > doing it well. >
It's a fairly simple thing to enable it to work with more "buckets" the Bayesian formula allows for any amount. When I first read about Bayesian filters, I wrote my own fairly quickly, and I actually have an almost complete filter that allows for any amount of 'buckets', I just recently set up this Gentoo system, so I installed Popfile so I didn't have to install my library and filter. I really like the popfile interface, so I'll probably end up doing something similar with my own filter, once I get back to finishing it. > I guess simple things like To and From headers work well enough for > mailing lists (and I would normally keep a separate address for work > vs. home) that I hadn't even thought of using Bayesian filtering for > anything but spam. Only with spammers can I not trust the simple > things! > > Spammers should [fate far worse than anything I can think of]!!!!! Anyone who hasn't looked at Bayesian filters should, They give excellent results with a very simple algorithm, and all you have to do is train it when you start out. Using more categories makes it learn a little slower, but usually after seeng just a handful, a Bayesian filter already predicts with about 80% accuracy. The one I have setup now has 5 categories and is at 94% accuracy after about 1200 messages. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPuAovwqNYTLzAsoIAQI8mQP/W/rifRBlCI+ltlZ/Vqi9iSU/VlmnWdyP vSjEYo1UJg7e5XxN3EQDFCsEDGLMD+Y6WeOamQ70tvX4VL39mAWW+pEF1+s5lOuM MWGyKB0Jilc4y1Nk+L2t9XrcUuDqHXaUoLwWoKAyndGfF4wwQug61ILcMmu/8rRn B33625ElVPA= =RztF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
