Maintenance Best Practices

[Greg Louis]

On 20030605 (Thu) at 1319:27 -0400, David Relson wrote:

> Simply running "bogoutil -d old | bogoutil -l new" will give a minimal 
> database.  My mail server has 18,823 spam and 39,561 ham in wordlists of 
> 11M and 17M respectively.  I have yet to delete anything.
> 
> As I said above, something's odd about your setup.

There is a lot to be said for not letting the training database get too
far out of balance.  Ideally, one wants roughly even spam and nonspam
message counts.

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