[Spambayes] training

[Meyer, Tony]

> But I think, in general, any training procedure that requires 
> more than a single click, or a click and drag, is going to be
> seen as just as annoying as the spam itself.

This presumably means that spambayes has to either:
(a) work via plugins (like Outlook)
(b) hook onto existing capabilities of mail programs (like the smtpproxy)

(a) would probably be a nicer solution, except that lots and lots of mail clients exist, and creating plugins for them all would be a lot of work - especially for 'dumb' clients like Outlook Express.  Mac applications would probably be reasonably straightforward since Applescript could do a lot of the work.

(b) has the problems already mentioned about mail programs mangling mail.  (Plus it would be a single click and then typing an address, and then another click).  What about the solution posted here a while back suggesting that the mail to spam at ... contained a message key (generated by spambayes to be safe), and that key is used to find the message in the cache.

If I understand things correctly, the proxy keeps mail for 7 days, right?  So, if, during this time, a command was received to find a specific message in that mail, this could be done, couldn't it?

I think the idea of providing various kick-start collections is probably a good one too, as long as there are disclaimers all over the place pointing out that they might not exactly match *your* spam.  So, who wants to trawl through all the spam collections and sort them into types? :)

=Tony Meyer