contributing datasets, was: Is bogotune helpful?

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:

>My ham msgbox had 17109 messages. My spam msgbox had 20,000 messages.
>However, a grep of MSG_COUNT revealed 17119 and 20,000 respectively.
>Why would the former be a little off?

It is always a bit risky to use formail -s since some
processes forget a seperator line before the From_ line. Try
formail -es, which should give the same number of messages
as grep -c '^From '.

pi