Re: [SAtalk] Updating ponderations given by the GA

[Craig Hughes]

You could either run the GA yourself (which requires building up a corpus of spam and non-spam to feed it, not sure how large it would need to be), or you more easily can just tweak scores on individual rules (this is very simple).  For example, you could just create a file called /path/to/spamassassinconfig/99localscores.cf and add a line like

score DEAR_SOMEBODY   0.0

or whatever score you prefer.

If you want to run the GA yourself, detailed instructions are in masses/README in the distribution.

C

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 18:46, Olivier Nicole wrote:

Greg,

> You don't run SpamAssassin's genetic algorithm -- I gather that only
> Justin Mason, the prime developer, does that currently.  He has a big
> huge pile ("the corpus") of mail, spam and non-spam, that is used to
> feed the GA and generate the scores in everyone's
> /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf files.
> 
> Clever, eh?  I'm sure it would be possible for everyone to have their
> own corpus of mail, and if Justin released the GA code (or has he
> already?)  then we could all run the GA ourselves and come up with our
> own score sets.  But why bother?

OK that's what I meant.

There is a good reason to bother, Justin's corpus is not the same as
the corpus I would gather, nor would mine be the same as yours.

Because we live in different worlds, different cultures, so the type
of message is very different.

One of my concern, for example, as a sys admin, I start my email by
"Dear user" this is quite highly pondered. One more hit and my message
would get lost.

I receive quite some emails from Indian/Sri Lankan/Pakistanese people
that start with "Dear sir" and that MUST not get lost.

It does not sound extravagant to me that one whishes to build his own
local rules.

Olivier

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