Re: [Dspam-user] TOE vs TEFT

[Ben <bug...@ve...>]

Thanks for the explanation Stevan.

Now that is appears it is worth switching, my next question is how best 
to do the switch for already existing users trained again TEFT:

If I just change the dspam setting, what happens? Does it start over 
with no training data? Convert the old data? Do some hybrid system where 
new information is trained as TOE but it keeps the TEFT data too? Or 
should I just wipe the user from dspam and start anew? Maybe trying to 
train with some recent spam.

Thanks,

Ben

On 4/18/2012 3:23 PM, Stevan Bajić wrote:
> On 18.04.2012 22:37, Ben Luey wrote:
>> I setup dspam a while ago with TEFT. Everything I've read on the list
>> says to use TOE instead of TEFT. Once the training period is over
>> (>2,500 messages I believe) does it matter?
> Yes it does!
>
>
>>    Does TOE vs TEFT only affect
>> the spam detection when in training mode?
> No! It affects every processing.
> If you have TEFT then every token in the storage backend will be
> modified on every single processed message (except on whitelisted,
> blocklisted, blacklisted and virus messages) and the statistics for the
> user (TP/TN count) will be changed too.
>
> TOE will on the other hand only change the statistics for the user
> (TP/TN count).
>
>
>> Put another way, if none of my users are still in training mode, is it
>> worth switching?
> YES! Internally DSPAM is anyway working slightly differently while in
> training mode. So switching now to TOE does not have any negative or
> positive effect (if you are really still in training mode).
>
>>    Or should I just change the default for new users?
> You can change it already now. I would suggest you to change it already
> now so that you don't have to think about it in the future.
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>