Jo wrote: > Gary V wrote:
>> It's sad, but we are at war with the spammers and the virus writers >> and the adware companies and the hackers and the spyware writers. >> Their tactics change on a daily basis, and so must ours. War often >> requires effort, sorry. > I know that. Which is why I keep pointing out that spammers have > adopted tactics to deliberately poison bayes caches. But everyone > ignores that. I would say that because of the way Bayes works, this does happen, but also because of the way Bayes works, it can be prevented. I appreciate the fact you have illustrated that if one chooses not to maintain their database, this may result. > Unless the bayes mechanisms are updated to be smarter, the current crop > of bayes-polluting auto-bot spam will invalidate everyone's bayes. This could be rephrased: Unless the anti-spam mechanisms are updated to be smarter, the current crop of spam will invalidate everyone's anti-spam mechanisms. Not surprising then that a new version of SpamAssassin comes out so often, and rules (SA or 3rd party) change on a nearly daily basis. Personally, my only goal is to attempt to solve problems with what is currently available. For your system, if your Bayes is corrupt, then work toward setting it right or get rid of it. SpamAssassin will work without it, and is designed to compensate for the loss. 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/
