How to Verify Junk Filter Learning?

Hi,
With some helpful posts on this board, I setup Junk Mail filtering in 10.4 a few months ago. While it appears that everything is running fine, the system doesn't seem to learn much about what it should or shouldn't tag as spam. I'm using Spamtrainer and I did the Symlink fix. Is there a way to tell if the system is still learning? I receive this email each night and the numbers continue to go up...
Learning SPAM...
Learned new SPAM (junk mail)
Learning HAM...
Learned new HAM (not junk mail)
Syncing SpamAssassin Database
Displaying SpamAssassin Database Stats
0.000 0 47298 0 non-token data: ham
0.000 0 2062 0 non-token data: spam
Deleting learned HAM and SPAM
Done!
Thanks.

If you are already using the junkmail and notjunkmail accounts to train SpamAssassin, and the SpamTrainer script is reporting that the database is getting bigger and bigger, your spam filter is "functioning".
The question is, "is it working for YOU"?
The only qualitative measure is to compare the number of tagged and non-tagged spams.
I use SpamSieve with Mail.app and its filter has become pretty smart about which messages I consider to be spam. It sets aside all the spam including those tagged as "**SPAM**" by SpamAssassin and those that SpamAssassin missed into a separate folder. Then I feed the SA non-tagged spam into the junkmail account. This way SA can learn from SS's expertise.
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