Jo wrote: >>> Okay, so I used to deal with Bayes quite a bit. I spent a very long >>> time specially training my Bayes database, and it seemed to work. >> >>> Now, the spammers are putting lots of junk text in their spam and >>> polluting the databases to such an extend that Bayes is much less >>> useful. >> >>> So I guess I'm saying that I have very little interest in spending >>> the >>> effort to retrain a new Bayes database, and none of my other users >>> are >>> capable or clueful enough to do so. >> >>> Short of disabling Bayes entirely, is there anything I can do with >>> minimal effort that yields a minimal return? I'm just not convinced >>> that Bayes databases are going to stack up well against the modern >>> bayes-scatter spam.
> On Oct 5, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Gary V wrote: >> If your effort was some time ago, those tokens are long gone by now. >> The rate at which new tokens are added is somewhat the same as the > ... >> If you quarantine, consider feeding all the spam in your quarantine to >> Bayes (after you remove any false positives). Sometimes spam like the > .. >> deletes everything once it is learned. I admit I don't do it every >> day, but at least two or three times a week. I also have a script that >> deletes anything older than 30 days from both accounts - simply so the >> server won't croak if I should happen to. :) > I really, really don't want to be rude but who are you replying to? > You apparently didn't read a single word of what I wrote above. > Really, not trying to be rude -- just can't follow this thread. It is my opinion that only people who feel they are need to say stuff like that. > NO. I won't spend another minute of my day training Bayes, and > nobody else on this server is clueful enough. Period, end of > subject. Done. Ok > Now, how can I prevent Bayes from SUBTRACTING 2.6 from every message > short of completely disabling it? adjust scores, here are likely current settings: score BAYES_00 0 0 -1.665 -2.599 score BAYES_05 0 0 -0.925 -0.413 score BAYES_20 0 0 -0.730 -1.951 score BAYES_40 0 0 -0.276 -1.096 score BAYES_50 0 0 1.567 0.001 score BAYES_60 0 0 3.515 1.0 score BAYES_80 0 0 3.608 2.0 score BAYES_95 0 0 3.514 3.0 score BAYES_99 0 0 4.070 3.5 The last column is likely the one you need to edit. Place these in local.cf and season to taste. http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html Gary V ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
