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From: James Vasile <james@hackervisions.org>
To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [afew] announcing afew, an universal tagging solution with some
 fancy features
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I'm tring to figure out how to use afew.  It looks interesting, but
gives me surprising results.

I did `afew --learn spam -- tag:spam` and believe this tells afew that
all the messages matching tag:spam should be classified as spam.  But if
that is right, why would `afew -c spam -- tag:spam` then show me a bunch
of messages that are tagged spam by notmuch but not classified spam by
afew?

How do I train afew when I correct it's mistakes?  Is that what `afew
update` is for?  What does "update the reference category" mean?

Thanks much,
James