> Some users may find it confusing to have to add specifications > to a (possibly missing) configuration file.
Agreed! Any options that we expect people would actually want to use are exposed in the GUI - but there are too many possible options to expose them all. A lot of this is my fault, for two reasons: 1. I encouraged people to try out experimental options in the release notes for 1.0.1, and I sometimes suggest using them in [email protected] messages (particularly the use_bigrams option, which I quite like). 2. The documentation (for Outlook users) is very lacking in this regard. In fact, there pretty much is none apart from [email protected] archives. I plan to remedy #2 before 1.0.2/1.1a1, so that there are clear instructions about how Outlook users can access these experimental/very advanced options. > I suggest that you include a configuration file in every release, > with all possible options specified but commented out. (Ideally, > the comments would include a brief explanation of each item.) > Then you could simply advise the user to (for example) "uncomment > the x-use_bigrams option". I like this idea - thanks! I may very well do this, or something similar as well as improving the documentation. =Tony.Meyer _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
