[Spambayes] Setting the Spambayes timers

[Coe, Bob]

> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Tony Meyer
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 6:16 PM
> To: 'voomp'; spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Setting the Spambayes timers
> 
> 
> (Turning on these [obscure tuning] options in Outlook is a somewhat
> difficult process.  You have to open up the 'default_bayes_customize.ini'
> file in the SpamBayes data directory (or create it if there isn't one)
> and add the appropriate options.  For example, you'd add
> 
> [Classifier]
> x-use_bigrams:True
> 
> for the bigrams option.  The tricky bit is that there isn't any way for
> Outlook users to see what options are available - some sort of documentation
> about that might be a good idea when someone has time.  You can look at the
> Options.py file in CVS from http://sf.net/projects/spambayes, but that's a
> bit tricky, really).

What I'd suggest is that the Spambayes release contain a default or dummy "default_bayes_customize.ini" file with all the nonessential settings listed but commented out. Additional comments would explain how the options are used, why they're not turned on by default, etc. In effect, this would make the configuration file self-documenting and obviate the necessity for chasing links to get the information. (I'll admit up front, however, that Hell will freeze before I have time to do this myself, even if I knew the necessary details or thought I could find them.)

I haven't looked at the "Options.py" file (I'm writing this on a train and can't chase the link), but I assume that the reader would have to know (or be able to infer) at least some Python in order to make much sense of it.

Bob

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