In response to Giovanni Andreani, A-NO-NE Music sez: >I asked to this list, which got no response back then, that I suspected >if this is caused by database off-balance. I add more Mark As Spam >every day, while I don't do Mark As Good as often, and if I am doing >this wrong.
Maybe this isn't the list to ask. SpamSieve seems its the culprit here and it may be better to check the SpamSieve site or list. Here is information about subscribing to the SpamSieve Talk list: <http:// lists.c-command.com/listinfo.cgi/spamsieve-talk-c-command.com>. They have a searchable list archive even, but one has to be a member to use it. For what it's worth, I have spam that is missed as well. However, it is spam that is being forwarded to me by a mail address I've ok'd as a sender. SpamSieve knows it is coming through there and must be giving it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I can figure out how to make it catch the spam coming from there too. Otherwise, some of my good messages occasionally get rated with a bit of spam content -- and they do have it, so SpamSieve is doing it's job as far as I'm concerned. I've had two false positives since I've begun running the program in February -- and I'm pretty sure those were actually me marking things good that really weren't after all (I put them back as spam). I've had more messages I've had to mark as spam, but it worked as advertised and put further messages like that in the spam folder. Here are my current stats: Filtered Mail 1163 Good Messages 1207 Spam Messages (51%) 12 Spam Messages Per Day SpamSieve Accuracy 2 False Positives 69 False Negatives (97%) 97.0% Correct Corpus 432 Good Messages 692 Spam Messages (62%) 36796 Total Words Rules 308 Blocklist Rules 455 Whitelist Rules Showing Statistics Since 2/8/05 9:03 AM It'll be interesting to see how this holds up as I run it more and the corpus and rules grow. Maybe it would be a good thing to rebuild the corpus and rules once a year? Clear it of fake spam addresses that will never show up again but are cluttering rules? I dunno... -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
