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Joe Emenaker writes: > Joe Flowers wrote: > > >> If your "spread" is good and it's just the threshold that needs > >> adjusting, it would be trivial to make a rule that fires on every > >> message and give > it a score equal to the desired difference... > > > > Thanks Pierre. That may be what I have to do, if noone has a better idea. > > Actually, what this discussion has inspired me to do is to investigate > the idea of having a script auto-adjust each user's spam_threshold. > > Currently, I've got a setup where users have two trash folders: one for > spam, one for ham. Every hour, a cron job runs sa-learn on the contents > of those folders. However, something *else* that it does is it records > each message to a "spamlog", which holds the SA spam score and whether > or not the user felt that it was spam or not. > > Originally, I did it so that I could give users personalized values in a > page which would look like this > (http://fruitpie.blastpoint.com/~jemenake/spamreport.cgi). However, > after reading this thread, I think I'm deciding that this isn't > necessary. The user can just indicate what their desired level of > false-positives or false-negatives is. Then, my hourly script, after it > runs sa-learn and updates the spamlog, it could run some stats on the > updated spam log and figure out the best spam_threshold in order to > achive the user's desired FP or FN rate. that sounds pretty cool. suggestion: get it to record what rules hit and what those rules' scores were. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFBOPnBQTcbUG5Y7woRAoQZAJ0VAJoCMTo6OgPI2cf+odoBzryOzgCgxU2t P3fjukvVJf5EO/rCfn2Rn68= =W71z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
