What's with bogofilter and spam

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 13:15 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 04 June 2009 12:53:25 Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > Sadly, I'm not feeling like being manual about this, and I guess that I
> > just expect my mail client to work well with the spam software and do it
> > for me.  
> 
> In the end, it's your decision.  But just stop for a moment and think about 
> what you wrote.  Is it reasonable to expect any software to learn about new 
> spam methods, which change almost on a daily basis, without any help from 
> you.  My training takes me about 3 minutes per week, if that, and in return I 
> get greater accuracy.  A good return on my effort, IMO.

It's fairly easy to automate, anyway - just write a cron job that
iterates over the contents of your spam folders and your not spam
folders every so often, running the appropriate training command.
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