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Re: [Ifile-discuss] Using multiple spam categories
From: |
Clemens Fischer |
Subject: |
Re: [Ifile-discuss] Using multiple spam categories |
Date: |
7 Nov 2002 14:32:29 +0100 |
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"Karl Vogel" <address@hidden>:
> I've noticed a slight decrease in filtering effectiveness when you jam
> too many messages into two few ifile categories.
this is true.
> ifile was a real timesaver here; I grabbed 10 messages that had gotten
> through, used them to create a small .idata using the category "fraud",
> added some valid mail as a comparison, and ran ifile against my entire
> spam collection to find anything similar. This gave me just over 1000
> hits with very few false matches. Moving those 1000 messages into
> the fraud category and recreating .idata has effectively weeded those
> puppies out.
did you make a script to automatically analyze ifile's output here, or
did you just use something like "C=`ifile -c`" and file into category
C? if you have a cool script for this kind of thing, please share :)
clemens