At 2:11 PM +0200 10/10/06, Fritz Borgstedt wrote: >Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy ><[email protected]> schreibt: >>But that is precisely Michaels point... the effectiveness *was* >>diminished, due to 2 (I think he said 2) specific users who were >>*very* >>heavy senders of 'spammy' email, thus, apparently, 'polluting' the >>corpus by virtue of a lot of 'spammy' email being automatically added >>to >>the ham corpus because it was intentionally sent by those two users. >> >>It was the *fact* that more and more spam was getting by ASSP that >>started Michael looking into *why* - and he discovered why, and then >>developed a solution *which* *worked*. > > > >You can get something to work (compared to what?) without being a >solution. >Users can be excluded from contributing, that is standard procedure in >ASSP.
So really, it's just a question of which method is used to manually remove the offending party's polluting mail. You choose to redlist or put those people on "unprocessed". Michael chose to examine the mail itself, determine the characteristics that cause the most pollution on his particular system, and wrote a regex to keep those specific emails out of his corpus. In some ways his method may be more effective as 'unpolluting' mail from those users will still be added to the corpus, and 'polluting' email from others on the system may be deterred. Both methods have merit. Leave it up to the admin to decide which method works best for them. -- Bill Christensen <http://greenbuilder.com/contact/> Green Building Professionals Directory: <http://directory.greenbuilder.com> Sustainable Building Calendar: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/> Green Real Estate: <http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/> Straw Bale Registry: <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/> Books/videos/software: <http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
