Re: spam-stat.el and mime

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, cohen@andy.bu.edu wrote:

> I've been using spam-stat.el for ages, but was unhappy that it only
> had a success rate of about 97%. Checking a bit this was almost
> entirely because it did no decoding of mime (or base64) encoded
> articles. I've modified it to decode mime (if you don't like this it
> can be controlled by customizing the spam-treat-mime-function to
> nil). 
> 
> After retraining, I now have a false-positive rate of less than .08%
> (no false positives on my test directory of 1300 ham emails) and a
> success rate of detecting spam of about 99.8%, which is as good or
> better than any of the other Bayesian filters I've played with. 

That's very cool, but shouldn't it go into spam.el so other backends
besides spam-stat can use it?

If you can incorporate Jesper's suggestions into your code, you're
welcome to make a patch to put the code in spam.el or let me do
it.  This is definitely a good feature for the Gnus users.

Thanks
Ted