spam removal

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:51:35PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering.  Spamassassin is also
> > highly recommended for site use.
> 
> I'll second both.  SpamAssassin worked well for me for several years,
> but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA just wasn't
> keeping up with the latest craze of random word spams.  Fortunately, I
> had a 26,000-spam corpus with which to train bogofilter, so it's
> already working quite well.  It seems to be learning the random word
> spams gradually.

I had problems with those bayes-busters for a while until I adjusted
my cutoff scores (according to the recommendation of bogotune)..it now
catches all of those with 99% accuracy too.

Kris
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