[Spambayes] Deleted Email Can't Be Tagged

[Coe, Bob]

Since I know nothing of the internals of Spambayes, I have no way of guessing what havoc that would wreak. But your response suggests that there may be more complicated side effects going on at the folder level (as opposed to the individual message level) than I had supposed. Which motivates me to check on an assumption under which I had been operating, i.e. that deleting messages from either the "Definite" folder or the "Ambiguous" folder has no training effect. Is that in fact the case? I also assume that there's no training effect if I move a message out of the "Ambiguous" folder without specifying that it is or isn't spam. Am I right about that?

A related question: If I move a message from the "Definite" folder to a folder other than the one in which Spambayes found it, does that have a training effect? More specifically, if I want to add to my library of spam (which I use to start up new Spambayes users), can I safely do it by moving messages from the "Definite" folder to my "Sample spam" folder? Or do I have to copy the messages and then delete them from the "Definite" folder?

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:03 PM
> To: 'Feingold Josh S'; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Deleted Email Can't Be Tagged
> 
> 
> This is by design.  The main reason is to prevent people 
> selecting "Deleted Item" as the Spam folder - this would
> wreak havoc with incremental training in a number of ways.
> 
> Mark.