[spambayes-dev] Re: [Spambayes] ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes release 1.0rc1
Rhesa Rozendaal
perl at rhesa.com
Tue May 18 21:19:53 EDT 2004
Tony Meyer wrote:
> The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce the latest release of SpamBayes -
> 1.0rc1.
First off, thank you very much for the new release. I just finished
installing it, and it feels very good! The training web interface is a
great deal more responsive, initial training of about 1000 messages was
very quick, and it contains many other small improvements. I like the
added statistics, and the many added advanced and experimental options.
I do have two small comments though:
- I was already running pop3proxy as a service, and the installer didn't
want to install the new version. The reason at first was an unrecognised
option in my old bayescustomize.ini in the [html_ui] section. After
commenting the offending line, it just crashed. Of course I was running
an older version (0.7a I think), and since this is only 1.0, no big
deal. And manually removing the old service and installing the new
version fixed it. [ I'm sorry to say I was so stupid to forget noting
the offending option before throwing everything away, so I cannot
include it here. I only remember there were two options in that section,
and the offending one ended in _to, value True ]
- Two of the new advanced options immediately caught my eyes: Default
training for spam/ham. I always had to manually check 'discard' for
those, so these looked like a real time saver. Given that I receive an
average of 300 messages a day, of which ~50% is spam, and I only want to
train on selected unsures, you can imagine it takes quite a bit of
scrolling to find the spam section. I was hoping I could just quickly
set the unsures to the correct values, and jump down to the page to
press Train, but unfortunately these options are not honored. All hams
still default to Ham, and all spams to Spam. [ A very small improvement
for me would be a Train button at the top of the page. I trust Spambayes
enough in its ham and spam judgments, so I do not need to look at those
sections. In the past year, I have never had a false positive, and
definitely less than 10 false negatives ]
Overall, it looks like you greatly improved an already awesome product!
So thank you very, very much!
Rhesa Rozendaal
> Tony.
> (on behalf of the SpamBayes team)
>
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