Re: Learning/relearning twice; effect on database

* Jason Rennie <[email protected]> [021021 12:17]:
> I can't say anything about the procmail scripts, but my educated guess is 
> that they just act as a wrapper for the ifile core executable.  

Yes, that's right.

> If so, ifile  won't notice that you've fed it the same message twice.
> Nothing terrible will happen---the words in that message will be
> weighted slightly more heavily.  For a folder with very few e-mails,
> this could have a significant effect, but for a larger folder, the
> effect will be hardly noticeable.

Ok, that makes sense.  How large is "large" - 100, 1000, or 10000?

> [email protected] said:
> > Just want to know whether or not I have to keep a track of which
> > messages I recategorise in this way.
> 
> Not exactly sure what you mean.  Probably best to view ifile as attached
> to a folder hierarchy.  Each --insert (or --query-insert) should
> correspond to a message being added to a folder.  Each --insert --delete
> should correspond to a message being moved from one folder to another.

I move messages manually when they have been miscategorised.  Then
nightly I scan folders for messages with ifile headers which don't match
the folder they're in - these are messages that have been
miscategorised.  I --delete these messages from ifile-categorised folder
and --insert into folder they're sitting in.  What you're saying sounds
like I should keep track of which messages I have recategorised in this
way, as over time misclassified ones will be overweighted if I process
them repeatedly..  

thanks,
jack

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