SA forget before learn?

[Phil Temples <ph...@temples.com>]

Hi all,

Is it necessary to run sa-learn --forget on spam that has been "learned" 
as ham prior to running "sa-learn --spam" against it?  Or, does the 
latter action negate its previous learned status as ham?

The header in question:

X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_99,
         DRUGS_ERECTILE,DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=ham
         version=3.0.0-pre4

Thanks,

Phil

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Phil Temples <ph...@temples.com>

Re: SA forget before learn?

[Matt Kettler <mk...@comcast.net>]

At 11:09 AM 8/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Is it necessary to run sa-learn --forget on spam that has been "learned" 
>as ham prior to running "sa-learn --spam" against it?

No, you don't need to forget first.

>   Or, does the latter action negate its previous learned status as ham?

Yes, sa will recognize if it was previously learned as ham and correct for 
that.

SA will also ignore you if you try to relearn a message as the same type 
(ie: if you try to learn it yet again as spam, it won't do anything because 
it's already learned as spam)