On Tue 7-Sep-04 1:58pm -0400, MikeD (3) wrote:

> Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 12:38:31 PM, you wrote:

BM>> On Mon 6-Sep-04 7:56pm -0400, Michael L. Wilson wrote:

>>> Since the 5.10 or so, I have added the discussion and newsletter
>>> groups to the whitelist, which has sped up mail collection even more.
>>> This list generates a hundred or more email a day, and those are just
>>> passed through BayesIT, and not counted in the totals.

BM>> This appears to be a great idea for training BayesIt!
BM>> However, for actual operation after a bit of this training,
BM>> wouldn't it be better to delete those white list entries and
BM>> place them in the ignore list?

> You seem to know more about this than I do.  What is the difference
> between the white list and the ignore list?  I have never used the
> latter.

Whitelist learns and assigns a zero value (not spam).
Ignorelist doesn't learn and returns "not processed" to TB!
You can see the learning going on by examing the log and the
base.

After training for a day with my Whitelist, I simply did a
rename to convert that list to an Ignorelist:

    ren whitelist.txt ignorelist.txt

-- 
Best regards,
Bill



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