unregistration options

[David Relson]

Hi Simon,

At 02:06 PM 2/28/03, Simon Huggins wrote:

>Hi bogofilter,
>
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Greg Louis wrote:
> > On 20030228 (Fri) at 0914:22 +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > > Is there any good reason we can't keep backwards compatibility and make
> > > the new thing use the new options?
> > Bogofilter's in early development, and freezing human or programmatic
> > interfaces this early isn't a good idea: it stifles improvement.
>
>I could accept this if...
>
> > This particular change is being considered because the -S and -N
> > options in their original form give less flexibility and are less
> > intuitive than the proposed replacements.
>
>... I thought this was an improvement.

It provides a symmetry of capability that has been lacking.

>Why do people want to merely unregister spam?  Isn't the point that you
>either get a false-positive in your spam folder or a false-negative in
>your inbox and want to reverse what has been done?

Suppose you mistyped a command and registered a message twice.  Without an 
unregister capability, you have no way to correct the mistake.

>I can see that theoretically it would be nice to allow you to unregister
>without adding to the other list but can't see _any_ practical mail
>handling application for this.
>
>Why was this wanted in the first place?

It's been requested several times over the past few months.  I thought it 
worth doing and did it.

David