question on multiple wordlists

[David Relson]

At 01:07 PM 10/11/02, Eric Seppanen wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:56:16PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >
> > --wordlist <filename> would work well for simple updates, e.g. '-s' and
> > '-n'.  For transfers ('-S' and '-N') two wordlists are needed.  We could
> > --spamlist <filename> and --goodlist <filename>.
>
>You misunderstood what I meant.  It's not necessary to specify that this
>is a goodlist or spamlist, just "update this list with this message" so
>--wordlist <filename> could work instead of -s or -n, not in addition to.
>
>So you could say
>bogofilter -n <goodmsg
>bogofilter -s <spammsg
>bogofilter --wordlist misc <miscmsg

You're right, -n and -s aren't needed with --wordlist.  Each of the options 
implies operations on a single wordlist.

However consider the following:

bogofilter -d mydirectory -n <goodmsg
bogofilter -d mydirectory -s <spammsg

Given the possibility of typing -n when -s was meant, -N and -S will remain 
useful with -d.  Given that the user may do:

bogofilter --wordlist myspamlist <spammsg
bogofilter --wordlist mygoodlist <goodmsg

There's still a need for -N and -S which take two wordlists.  This leads to 
the value of --spamlist and --goodlist.


>Again, I really think that -S and -N are totally unnecessary (for
>user-defined lists), because the lists will almost certainly be
>hand-maintained.  Plus, I think in a lot of cases people will keep
>additional spam lists _without_ additional goodlists.  -S and -N make no
>sense if you only have one list.
>
>I think it'd be good to wait and see if there's any real problems before
>we go add options that are never going to be used.
>
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