On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:32:53 +0200 Cyril' <ds...@minou.biz> wrote: > Hi all, > Hello,
> Let's assume I have an organization where I want an antispam installed, > but the users are too dumb/busy/unhelpish to process their own receied > spam and forward it to the retrain process, in any way. (Not an academic > problem, it's the story of my life). I don't even talk about using a web > gui for that. > Would dspam be the right tool for them?? > Yes. > I can handle doing the retrain > myself for the first days/weeks, but after that, each new false > negative, not retrained, will let dspam believe more and more that it is > ham, and at the end, nothing more will be filtered, right? > Wrong. If you use TOE ([T]rain [O]n [E]rror) then a not corrected error (either False Postive or False Negative) will not influence the tokens at all. The only influence it will have is that the counter for each class (Spam / Ham) will be increased and that counter will have a influence on the accuracy but in my experience the wrong classification will balance/compensate each other. So at the end your tokens will not get better nor will they get worse. They +/- stay on that level and the accuracy will do the same. > Or could there be a strategy to accomodate this? > YES! Use the group support of DSPAM. That will help to boost accuracy. For example using a merged group will help to boost the accuracy for all group members at once without the need to train each user individually. Or if you have groups of users sharing +/- the same type of mail content then put them in a shared or shared,managed group and correct errors there from time to time. > (No, changing this customer is not an option for my business...) > What you have there is something most of us have to deal with. It is pretty common to have users not being able or not being capable to train. > Ideas welcome, > What MTA are you using? Maybe I could help to harden your setup? I have so far helped two users from the DSPAM mailing list to harden their setup and I would say that those little things have helped to cut their Spam rate by factors. @Marko Weber and Paul Cockings: If you are reading this... could you post your experience with the hardened setup? I think Cyril could benefit from some input. > Cyril' > -- Kind Regards from Switzerland, Stevan Bajić ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Dspam-user mailing list Dspam-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
