Doing this right?

[Greg Louis]

On 20050504 (Wed) at 0903:49 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> 
> I do not use the -u switch, so according to the FAQ, to retrain with a message I
> do:
> 
> bogofilter -n < falsepos

Right.

> spamicity=0.494604
> after running the retraining command on the same message, I get this:
> joehill at node3:~/mail$ bogofilter -vv < falsepos
> X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.264029, version=0.94.4
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that the lower score is because of the retraining
> command I ran on the message?

Exactly correct.  Training increased the database's nonspam counts by 1
for every token in that message, and the effect was to lower the spam
"probability" value for each token; that, in turn, lowered the overall
spam score as you saw.

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