on NUMBER sep NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER guido van rossum wrote your mail and gives you only the non spam to train it you d only need to send it the false negatives somehow it can assume that anything is ham that you don t say is spam within NUMBER hours i have folks who leave their email programs running NUMBER hours a day constantly polling for mail if they go away for a long weekend lots of friday night spam will become ham on sunday night friday night seems to be the most popular time your idea here ultimately i d like to see tight integration into the most popular email clients as a stop gap to the auto ham how about adding an imap server with a spam and deleted ham folder most email clients can handle imap users should be able to quickly move spam into the spam folder instead of deleting messages or by reprogramming the delete function they can quickly move ham into the ham folder in either case the message would be processed and then destroyed brad clements bkc URL NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER URL NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER fax aol im bkclements 