On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Matthias F. Brandstetter uttered the following...

> ---------- quoting Grendel ----------
> > Well spam assasin is not very accurate, ie my ISP runs spam assasin but
> > out of the > 4000 mails I get per day I find that about 80 spam get
> > through, which is annoying, so I used bmf and it is very accurate, now
> > only one spam per day  gets through.
> 
> Maybe your ISP isn't using SA bayesian filter?
 
I asked them and indeed confirmed that they do not use the SA bayesian 
filter, they replied that they are worried if false positives will make 
users angry. There point is that it is better from a ISP point of view to 
allow a few spams to get in rather then labling genuine email as spam and 
incurring the users wrath. 

But he also confirmed that they are running a test server which indeed is
running spam assasins bayesian filter mode and that the results are better
with more spam being caught. But he also mentioned that there are some
false positives (normal mail marked as spam) and thats why they are
delaying putting it in to action till they can train it properly.


Grendel.


 

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