Joel Uckelman on Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:02:03 +0100 (CET)


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Re: [hosers-talk] greylisting


Thus spake Joshua:
> 
> Joel Uckelman sez:
> >> >Oh. Well, there's our explanation, then. It has barely any good mail
> >> >with which it can make statistical comparisons.
> >> >
> >> >If you feed the last 4800 or so real messages you've received to
> >> >'mh2bogo -n', you should see a remarkable improvement in performance.
> >> 
> >> you told me what i started with would be enough! argh spam filters.
> >
> >I thought sure that I said that you needed to start with corpora of
> >a few thousand messages. If you don't have that many good messages
> >right now, keep adding them as you go. You want to get the sizes of 
> >the two corpora within about 50% of each other, at worst.
> 
> i think they were when i started. (at the moment i have about 1500
> messages in my inbox. i think maybe i combined a few mailboxes to
> pull it off?) it's just that i've accumulated a lot more spam than
> i have retained legitimate mail.

If you dump that in, you should still see an improvement.
 
-- 
J.
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