training to exhaustion?

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Tom Allison wrote:

> I've been doing the following and have one question.
> How many times to train the whole list?  I've on iteration number 6 
> right now and I have two emails that are still coming up spam.

Until no message remains wrong or there is one iteration
where no message is added.

> Another question:
> These have all been filtered once, should I kill the 'N' option after 
> the first time through since they were only mis-read once?  (I'm 
> guessing probably?)

I don't understand why you use N in the first place. If you
start from scratch this won't be necessary. Also you will
need to train with ham. Best is to swith between them.

> tallison at janus:~/Maildir/.training.spam/cur> for F in `ls *`; do 
> bogofilter < $F ||  bogofilter -Nsvv < $F; done

pi