Re: Bogofilter

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, org@acm.isoboroff wrote:
>>> The _right_ thing to do is something like nnir, that is, a
>>> classifier framework that you can plug anything into underneath.
>>
>> I'm sort of working on that right now, it will be a generic
>> framework for spam.el.
> 
> Ian is talking about text classification which could be used for
> general splitting (not just the spam/ham thing that spam.el does).
> 
> This doesn't mean that spam.el is bad, just that it solves a
> different problem.

> I think that the tracking part could be useful for using text
> classification for splitting.  But maybe it's enough to add the
> right hooks to Gnus, and spam.el uses them in one way whereas the
> use-a-classifier-for-splitting thing uses them in another way.

I should have said "I'm working on a generic framework, which will be
used by spam.el".  I want to make it easy to track a message as it
exists in Gnus, and spam.el will use that but other packages can too.
The idea will be to add any data you want to a message ID, and have
that data persist as the message moves around.  spam.el will attach
things like "processed as spam by bogofilter," "moved to group ABC,"
or "split by ifile into group XYZ."

Right now I'm in the "thinking about it" stage, no code yet...

Ted