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[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> Even more, I suggest moving them into the correct category of your
    Tim> "live" test data.  Randomness means "slice of life" in all possible
    Tim> respects, and things that some other system misclassified (whether
    Tim> that system be SpamAssassin or your own eyeballs doesn't matter)
    Tim> should appear in the training data in the same proportion as they
    Tim> occur in real life.  Systematically moving misclassifications into
    Tim> the normally passive reservoirs is a distortion of real life, just
    Tim> as feeding the system *only* misclassifications would be.

Good point.  I was thinking about the potential loss of data, but moving the
misclassified message to the right Set? directory and running rebal.py would
be better.

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