> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Burger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:36 PM
> To: Gary Funck
> Cc: Razor User's List
> Subject: Re: [Razor-users] early experiences with Razor2 (and SA)
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Gary Funck wrote:
>
> > 1) The general consensus on the Spamassassin Talk e-mail list
> was to "use
> > Razor2", but the installation documentation is a little light
> on how to find it
> > and install it. From the installation notes,
> > http://www.spamassassin.org/dist/INSTALL:
> >
> > - Razor http://razor.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Used to check message signatures against Vipul's Razor collaborative
> > filtering network. Razor is not available from CPAN -- you have to
> > download it from the URL above.
> >
> > Razor has a large number of dependencies on CPAN modules. Feel free
> > to skip installing it, if this makes you nervous; SpamAssassin will
> > still work well without it.
> >
> > (I should add that my reason for trying Razor is that although
> SA does a great
> > job of diagnosing most SPAM, I was hoping for better coverage
> on the marginal
> > spam's that come through, and to take advantage of
> black-listing based upon
> > consensus.)
>
> I'm not sure how you'd expect Razor to work better on "marginal
> spams"...Razor basically is a check against (as well as a reporting
> process to add to) a database of reported/known spam messages. If the
> message isn't in the Razor database, Razor won't report it as such, and
> SpamAssassin won't add the RAZOR2_CHECK score to the message's spam level.
In my experience, there are spam messages that sneak past Spam Assassin,
that Razor will pick up. Those are the ones that I'm calling "marginal".
Basically, I'm hoping that "the collective" of Razor users make a better
judge of spam than any single program like SA can, and therefore I can
benefit from their judgement and get more extensive spam filtering. I've
seen examples of this already, where SA doesn't score the spam high enough
to bounce it, but Razor does.
>
> If you're sure it's spam, however, you can run it through either
> "spamassassin -r" or "razor-report" to have it added to the database.
>
Yup. I plan on reporting those that make it through the SA screen, with the
hope that others can benefit.
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