On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:42:54PM -0500, Don Ireland wrote:
> Should I be looking at the docs written for users or for admins?  

Are you running SA as a user or as an admin?

> If I use Bayesian filtering (I want to), will other users of my host's 
> system affect SA's learning?  Or will it only read MINE?  If I can allow it 

Depends how you set it up.

> to include other users training but have that carry a lower weight in the 
> decision process then that's what I'd like to do.  But I don't want the 
> fact that someone else identified something as spam to carry as much weight 
> as MY identifying something as spam.

There's a single DB, either yours, or a site-wide DB.

> Also when the host updates SA, will I need to re-train SA?  I've read that 
> minor or maintenance updates don't need retrained, but what about major 
> upgrades?  If so, will SA just stop working?  Or will I just start 
> receiving more spam until I get it re-trained again?

So far, there's been no situation where an upgrade requires restarting with
Bayes, SA upgrades the DB formats and such.

It sounds like you're a user on someone else's hosting though -- I'd talk to
them about what their SA setup is and how you're expected to use it.

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