Doing this right?

[JoeHill]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 11:34:04 -0400
Greg Louis disseminated the following:

> > 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.

...and yet, after 'retraining', a subsequent mail from the same person (replying
to my reply) again received a relatively high score:

X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.498903, version=0.94.4

Luckily, I had upped my spam threshold to .50, but I'm still curious as to why
mail from this particular person is getting scored so high after retraining with
a misclassified message from them.

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