Hello Burton, Monday, August 22, 2005, 1:29:48 PM, you wrote:
BW> Once a piece of spam has been shown to sa-learn as spam, is there any real BW> use in the user keeping it around? I know that sa-learn will skip over it BW> if shown it again, so I'm thinking "no" (unless you lose your bayes db and BW> want to train it again quickly, but that's what backups are for). In addition to having it available to rebuild your database, the next best use for old emails is as a corpus, so you can run your own mass-checks against them. This comes in very handy for helping the SA development team identify which prospective rules are most promising, and is used during the release cycle to determine the scores for rules with each new major release. Bob Menschel
