[Spambayes] Trimming a Junk Email folder

[Jesse Pelton]

Sorry; I didn't understand the intent of your original message.  (I'm
not sure Skip did, either.)  I don't retain spam myself, because a) the
messages sent by spammers evolves over time as they seek to get around
the latest anti-spam techniques, b) SpamBayes is easy and quick to
train, and c) it's just one more thing to manage.  If I think SpamBayes
isn't doing as good a job as I'd like, I just start over from scratch.
(That doesn't generally happen more than once or twice a year.)  Within
a couple of days and a few dozen messages trained on I'm generally
getting satisfactory results.

Bottom line: I don't have any suggestions that address the question of
how to groom your spam.  (Given my track record of late, I'm starting to
wonder if I'd be more use if I kept silent.)

-jesse-

-----Original Message-----
From: spambayes-bounces at python.org [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
On Behalf Of chermesh
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:15 PM
To: spambayes at python.org
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Trimming a Junk Email folder


Isn't it a waste, to delete the complete contents of the folder? After
all,
this folders presents  e x a c t l y  my notion of spam. Deleting the
contents meaning starting spambayes from scratch, and ignoring my unique
spam definition!

Ran


Jesse Pelton wrote:
> 
> Or just empty it. Select the folder, press Ctrl-A to select all the
> messages in it, and Shift-click the delete button (looks like an X) on
> the Outlook toolbar to permanently delete the messages.  Shouldn't
take
> more than a few seconds.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]
> On Behalf Of skip at pobox.com
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:41 AM
> To: chermesh
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Trimming a Junk Email folder
> 
> 
>     chermesh> Still, a long use creates a problem, my Junk Email
folder
> grew
>     chermesh> into a monster, around 5000 items....  As long as the
> folder
>     chermesh> was smaller, I used to do it manually, but a few weeks
of
>     chermesh> neglect, led it to its present state.  Can you suggest a
>     chermesh> substitute to the manual procedure?
> 
> Delete it completely and start from scratch?
> 
> Skip
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