[Spambayes] Teaching Spambayes

[Fred Smith]

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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