contributing datasets, was: Is bogotune helpful?

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Greg Louis wrote:

>> I've got 40,000 spam and hams roughly 50/50. Let me know how I can
>> create and get the datasets to you.
> 
> I'm not sure if any message-count converter is supplied with bogofilter
> these days, but running a command of the form
> 
>     formail -s bogol dbdir <mboxfile >messagecountfile

[...]

Questions:

1) Is it important how training was done?

2) Do you need those messagecountfile seperated for training
and testing? (Which would then mean a new training is needed
on only a part of the messages.)

3) Is it OK to do that in chunks of 5,000 messages or do you
want them all together?

pi