Re: boosting

2005-05-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
weights properly. I'm also not sure about how things might change in a situation where misclassification costs are asymmetrical as with spam classification. Frederik On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:25:16PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

boosting

2005-05-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
How are the rule weights for spamassassin generated? There is a method called "boosting" with several associated algorithms which is specifically aimed at combining the outputs of a collection of "weak" classifiers into a more accurate classifier. It seems somewhat relevant, has it been tried? Fre

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
> 2. Any further questions about this or similar topics should be directed > to the SpamAssassin users mailing list, not to here. This list is for > developer discussions only. Don't even reply to this with an apology or > a thank you. I'll pretend that you have replied politely and leave it at > t

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
Yes, the version I have installed is 3.0.2. On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:19:23PM +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Frederik Eaton wrote: > > As developers, you might want to add that information to the > > part of the man page I quoted > > I assume that you are referring to th

Re: header modification

2005-03-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
nding anyway. :-) On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:10:12AM +1300, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Frederik Eaton wrote: > > Is it possible to configure spamassassin to get back the original > > functionality of only modifying headers of spam > > 1. Look up the doc on rewrite_header and re

header modification

2005-03-04 Thread Frederik Eaton
The spamassassin manual page says: If an incoming message is tagged as spam, instead of modifying the original message, SpamAssassin will create a new report message and attach the original message as a message/rfc822 MIME part (ensuring the original message is complete

spamc interface suggestions

2004-09-25 Thread Frederik Eaton
Hi, I've been using spamc/spamd as part of my mail filter, and I've run into a few problems with the interface it provides. 1. I want to start a spamd process (as myself) if one is not already running. At first I thought spamc should at least have an option to automatically spawn a spamd if neces