Teaching Spambayes
Apologies for a non descriptive subject line, After many years Spambayes has become finely tuned with maybe 1-2 misdirected emails per month. When I find a misdirected email I engage Spambayes training page and copy the raw data to train as ham or spam. Most of my emails are not lengthy and I copy the entire raw data to train Spambayes. My concern is I don't want to corrupt the database by training on a very long email. To wit; I received a reply to an email which has successfully been going back & forth 5-6 times, printed it would now be perhaps 5-8 pages in length. It is important all of the replies remain attached to the email. Today I found the reply in the spam folder. To properly train at this point, should I copy & paste the entire contents of the email or should I just copy for the instance, the initial part of the email containing the X-Header information? As this is a good email found in the spam folder, I'm afraid that not training on it will corrupt the database. I will await replies before dealing with this email. Thank you, Gary --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:09:27AM -0400, Gary Smith wrote:
Apologies for a non descriptive subject line,
Gary: I don't understand why you are doing copy/paste. Just save a copy of the mail to the trained ham or trained spam folder and you're done.
After many years Spambayes has become finely tuned with maybe 1-2 misdirected emails per month. When I find a misdirected email I engage Spambayes training page and copy the raw data to train as ham or spam. Most of my emails are not lengthy and I copy the entire raw data to train Spambayes.
My concern is I don't want to corrupt the database by training on a very long email. To wit; I received a reply to an email which has successfully been going back & forth 5-6 times, printed it would now be perhaps 5-8 pages in length. It is important all of the replies remain attached to the email. Today I found the reply in the spam folder.
To properly train at this point, should I copy & paste the entire contents of the email or should I just copy for the instance, the initial part of the email containing the X-Header information? As this is a good email found in the spam folder, I'm afraid that not training on it will corrupt the database.
I will await replies before dealing with this email.
Thank you,
Gary
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