[Spambayes] Trimming a Junk Email folder

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

Yup.  However, you can (and based on my own personal experience, will) make
mistakes.  SpamBayes should converge on a useful definition of what you
think is good and bad very quickly.  Again, in my experience, it starts to
do a very good job by the time I've classified 10 hams and 10 spams.

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