message tags

[David Relson]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:37:45 -0400
Tom Anderson wrote:

> From: "David Relson" <relson at osagesoftware.com>
> > It has been suggested that bogofilter should be able to avoid
> > duplication registration of a message and avoid unregistering a
> > message that was never registered.  Given a unique tag, bogofilter
> > could check the tag before registering or unregistering a message. 
> > To take the idea a step further, the tag would have a value of 1 for
> > its ham count or its spam count.  The tag value would also make it
> > easy to fix an incorrect classification.
> 
> What purpose would this serve?  Letting a single message slide, or
> duplicating the registration, is not likely to effect classifications
> noticeably.  In fact, I often register messages multiple times when
> the previous registrations were ineffective in changing the
> classification on the same beyond the cutoff.  So long as there is
> bounds checking to prevent negative token counts, I see no drawback in
> registering or unregistering twice for good measure.  Therefore,
> adding unnecessary complexity to bogofilter for near-zero return seems
> a meritless idea.
> 
> Tom

Tom,

Some people have requested a way to avoid duplicate message registration
and incorrect unregistration.  As it would impact speed and database
size, it would be an option to be turned on by those who need it.  

Before implementing it such a feature, some testing will be done to see
if it's value.  It has not been established that tagging is meritless.

David