Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

When grilled further on (Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:19:05 -0700),
Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> confessed:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Huh? I just use Spamassassin myself, with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and Bayes all
> > enabled ...
>
> I use exactly the same setup. But recently I've noticed that the
> spammers are getting smarter -- I think 20% of it is slipping by the
> filters. I'm going to need something better.
>

Have you played with the "spamassassin --report" feature? Works fairly well if
you can integrate it into your e-mail client and report a bunch of
messages as spam. It trains the Bayes filter and reports to Razor (at
the least).

Sylpheed Claws has actions (you use "spamassassin--report %F" as the action),
and it'll batch the report on all selected messages.

I find that after a 10-20 messages, it starts finding the ones that were
slipping through. Since February, I have 200 missed out of 4200.

Cheers,
Rob

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