Re: spam.el: automatically resplitting ham in a spam group?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu wrote:

> Hello Ted,
> 
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> By the way, recently I added multiple
>> spam/ham-process-destinations.  So now from a spam group, you can
>> send ham to "INBOX" and to a "train_ham" group.  I find that very
>> useful for training, since "train_ham" will only contain the
>> misclassified messages.  With your setup, you may like it too.
> 
> What is the rationale behind this?  Do you do the training on the
> mail server?

Yes.

> I train locally using bogofilter, and have found simply training on
> misclassified messages to work quite well.  ie. only train on spam
> in my ham group and only on ham in my spam group.  So I have been
> curious about these train_ham and train_spam groups.

Correct, for local training bogofilter is fine.  I can't use it with
my ISP, though.

A change that's coming is that I'll make all the registration
functions batch-oriented - so instead of registering one message at a
time, all of them can be registered at once.  That should speed things
up enormously, and it should make remote training possible (you can
save the articles in a file and send it over via ssh or whatever
mechanism you like).

Ted