From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA14041; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:47:45 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA16192 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:47:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA10357 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:27:57 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from kraid.nerim.net (kraid.nerim.net [62.4.16.95]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9LCRu510197 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:27:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chinon (jmarant.net1.nerim.net [62.212.105.6]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FD940FE2 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:18:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by chinon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A8A2780CEDA; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:27:55 +0200 (CEST) To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcement: SpamOracle References: <20020826151138.A32572@pauillac.inria.fr> <20021020104354.GA11059@iliana> <20021020204946.GP31578@cs.unibo.it> <87vg3wvn8b.fsf@marant.org> <15795.59975.509171.829475@mailhost.lri.fr> From: jmarant@nerim.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?J=E9r=F4me?= Marant) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:27:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15795.59975.509171.829475@mailhost.lri.fr> (Claude Marche's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:51:35 +0200") Message-ID: <87lm4s0yes.fsf@marant.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Claude Marche writes: > Jérôme> Hi, > > Jérôme> I've already tried spamoracle: I fed it with about 2000 spams and > Jérôme> 3000 good mails and it too often considered good mail as spam. > > Hi, Hi, > I use Spamoracle almost since it has been announced. Before, I was > using SpamAssassin. Currently, my Spamoracle database contains roughly > 20000 good mails and 1000 spams (not including asiatic language spams > which are filtered differently). > > Now, I usually get 0 or 1 spam per day not filtered, usually because > there are written in french and my database is not large enough for > those. I check my spamoracle folder some time to time, I had almost no > good mail classified as spam, and if I get one, I immediately move the > mail in a `good' folder and rebuild the database. I suggest you should > check to way you built your database, may be you made some mistakes. Maybe. > With respect to SpamAssassin, SpamOracle runs much faster, this would > not surprise anyone here since SpamAssassin is a perl > script. Moreover, I had problems with SpamAssassin because I receive It depends how you use SpamAssassin :-) Using it as a daemon (spamd) along with spamc is pretty fast. > Finally, one should be aware that the filtering methods of > SpamAssassin and SpamOracle are very different, and I like very much > the idea, in SpamOracle, that the filter should be tuned by the user personal > idea of what is a spam. I recommend reading Paul Graham's paper > (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html) on which SpamOracle filter > method is based. Well, I know. The same algorithm is used in bogofilter. > I wish you a happy spam filtering ! :-) -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners