Re: [Ifile-discuss] Re: Large spam-only .idata file available

[Karl Vogel]

>> On 6 May 2003 14:09:45 +0200, 
>> "clemens fischer" <address@hidden> said:

C> "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <address@hidden>:
   >> Is 45 thousand enough to give solid results, or would it be helpful
   >> to have an additional twenty-six-thousand-message spam collection?

C> it might even be too much!  note that with ten times as many spams than
C> hams ifile will think many legit messages to be spam, just because some
C> of the words both categories have in common have high counts in `spam'.

   It depends on how you categorize the spam.  When my collection started
   getting big, I started getting false positives, plus the Nigerian scam
   messages were getting through as valid mail.  I fixed this by using the
   following categories in my .idata file:

     spambg      -- Bruce Guenter's collection
     spamcredit  -- credit checks, no one denied, etc.
     spamdiploma -- get your diploma here
     spamfraud   -- Nigerian scams
     spamgt      -- Grant Taylor's collection
     spamlicense -- International driver's license
     spamlocal   -- Junk sent to me
     spamsex     -- Guess
     spamuk      -- UK collection
     good        -- generated from my non-spam mail

   I just checked my incoming-spam folder and found one non-spam message
   out of 650.

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