Re: [dspam-users] Merged groups and classification groups

Adrian Overbury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I could be getting all this wrong, but I'm not sure if I'm
> understanding how I'm supposed to set these groups up properly. What
> I want to achieve in my environment is this:
>
> We have a global dictionary that is a classification source of last
> resort for anyone -- if they haven't got enough data or the filter
> isn't too certain about the result it's coming up with. We'll call
> this group global-class. If a new user comes along, and they don't
> have enough tokens in their dictionary, dspam will consult
> global-class for an answer as to the class of the message.
>
> Three users in the system (call them foo, bar and quux) will be the
> ones who'll feed global-class. They've already got data in their
> dictionaries, so I'd be using dspam_merge to merge all this into
> global-class. For every message that any of these three accounts
> recieve, the tokens extracted from it will go into global-class'
> dictionary, and the signature will belong to global-class (so that if
> it's misclassified, and they forward it to spam@domain or
> notspam@domain to retrain it, it relearns it in global-class'
> dictionary).
>
> Now, to achieve all of this, I think that what I would need to have in
> $DSPAM_HOME/group would be:
>
> global-class:merged:foo,bar,quux
> global-class:classification:*
>
> And the merge command line would be:
>
> % dspam_merge foo bar quux -o global-class
>
> And the stuff with the signatures and relearning should Just Work
> (assuming I already have these working in my system, which I do), or
> am I missing something here? I'm not sure.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adrian
>
Adrian,

I don't think its necessary to call dspam merge. In a merged group
untrained or inadequately trained users will use the tokens from foo,
bar, & quux until their own personal training has matured.

To achieve this you would add this to your group file.

trainers:shared:foo,bar,quux # Merged Group Trainers
trainers:merged:* # Merged Group

It may also be possible to just comma separate the trainers and omit the
shared group "trainers"

foo,bar,quux:merged:* # Merged Group w/ foo, bar,
quux as base users (trainers)

Personally I've never tried using a group of users as the base user for
a merged group, I've only ever used a single user.
In theory this should work.
 
Hope this helps.

-Jeff Harris
Received on Fri Nov 16 18:39:13 2007