What is spam? (was: [bogofilter] ESF and redundancy)

[Tom Anderson]

From: <tallison at tacocat.net>
> > Sounds like you're using auto-update (or other mechanism to register
> > _all_ spam).  Along with "-u", I have "thresh_update=0.01" in my config
> > file.  It tells bogofilter to skip autoupdating if the spamicity is
> > within 0.01 of 0.000000 (surely ham) or 1.000000 (surely ham).  This
> > capability was added to slow the database's growth rate.  It will (I
> > believe) ......
>
>
> sounds like something to test...  :)

I was just thinking that this will be a great feature to use when I upgrade
again, but then started wondering about how this effects the use of N & S
switches.  Normally, I assume that everything I get has already been
auto-updated, so I use -Ns or -Sn for corrections.  Will bogofilter
automatically ignore these switches if it is given a registration with an
original spamicity within the (0 to thresh_update) and (1-thresh_update to
1) ranges?

Tom