Re: Saving ifile database source files

* 2003-08-31 Joe Kelsey:

> AFAIK, ifile keeps a single .ifile database.  When I say "database
> source file" I mean what you call a spam corpus.  Why do I need a
> complete spam corpus?  I think a week or two of spam sufficies to
> provide 99% classification, as long as I include facilities for
> moving mis-calssified objects back and forth.

yes, this might actualy be better, because then you ifile only the
kind of spam _you_ get, but it should cover all of the different spam
schemes.

> You still have not addressed the need for a so-called "spam corpus".
> I believe that these caches of spam emails serve no useful purpose
> that cannot be achieved by a one or two week cache.

well, _for me_ "canned" spam is good, because i don't keep spam that
long and i'd like to have all the currently distributed spam types in
the database.  as they say:  your milage may vary.  there's nothing
wrong with your approach.

  clemens