[OT]Re: [oclug]Port 4662

[Bart Trojanowski]

* Dave O'Neill <dmo at acm.org> [030126 03:05]:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:25:52PM -0500, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> > * Dave O'Neill <dmo at acm.org> [030125 09:12]:
> > > Technical solutions to nontechnical problems are doomed to failure.
> > 
> > Dave, can you not train your Bayesian mail-filter to mark off-topic
> > posts automatically?
> 
> Well, you've entirely missed the point here... there is no feasable software
> solution to filter out off-topic posts.   Sure, I can set up a filtering
> rule (or train bogofilter to the point where [OT] flags something as spam),
> but it relies on wetware to do the work of marking each and every off-topic
> post as [OT]. 

You missed the point.  If it is possible for a statistical function to
predict if something is a SPAM (off-topic under all contexts), it is
possible to predict if it is off-topic in the OCLUG context... with
sufficient training.

> Besides which, I've given up on my bogofilter experiment, as I've found
> that rule-based filtering tends to do a much better job of keeping spam away
> from my inbox.

You should try Razor, it's statistical based, but the training set is
provided by everyone, not just you.  Hence there is a much higher chance
of successful matches then if you were to train it yourself.

B.

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