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On Friday, October 5 at 08:06 AM, quoth M. Fioretti:
>Besides some MTA-level filtering, I am using bogo instead of
>spamassassin because of one simple reason: lack of maintenance.
>
>I've read several times that SA rules must be constantly updated and
>added, otherwise they get half-useless every few weeks. Is this still
>true?
Bah; SpamAssassin is the swiss-army-knife of spam filters. It includes
a bayesian filter (not to mention things like razor and dcc, which are
constantly up-to-date), and as such, does not require updating the
rules. Updating the rules can *help*, but it is not required to
continue functioning at a reasonably high level.
The real criticism I'd level against SpamAssassin as compared to
bogofilter is that SpamAssassin's bayesian classifier is relatively
simple. To my knowledge, it doesn't tokenize word-pairs and phrases,
but just single words; thus, something that uses more advanced
bayesian techniques (I presume bogofilter fits this description?) may
well beat it at that particular game---which is where updating the
rules can help as a compensating factor. It's not like a virus-scanner
where an out-of-date database is worthless.
~Kyle
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