×××× ××××× 22 ×××××× 2004, 14:58, ×××× ×× ××× [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've just heard about BogoFilter and see that people on that other forum > think it's better than SpamAssasin (based on their personal experience). > > http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/ > > Has anyone here tried it or know of comparisons between it and other > anti-spam software?
I use it on my co-located server and I'm very happy with what it does. its thresholds are easly configurable and it supports a three state mode which allows me to put very agressive thresholds and not worry too much about false positives - false positives always fall in the "unsure" state which on my system gets marked as spam but still sent to users. at this point I can fix them easily. currently I have a dictionary of about 55 MBs and while adding and removing large emails to it takes time, searching is very fast and I don't expect the dictionary to grow much larger then this : it already classifies most stuff correctly and just need a wee bit more fine tuning. I haven't personally compared it to SpamAssasin, but my work place uses SpamAssasin for filtering and I'm much less happy with its accuracy: way too many false positives or false negatives. specifically in some (default) configurations SpamAssasin marks as spam normal email that many mail clients generate as part of the regular operation, for example - HTML mail with blue side stripes to identify quoting. The most important thing for a baesian filter approach is of course a good mail corpus - if you haven't get at least several thousands of correctly identifed mail of both types, don't bother - its most likely that you won't be able to get your filter to work correctly. -- Oded ::.. A computer's attention span is only as long as its extension cord. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
