On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:52, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
Unless other people have reported the same spam, and their trust rating is high, single submissions are not reflected in the DB. The messages are stored and the system waits for more reports of the same (similar) spam.
Good info, thanks.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Razor wrote:
The reason I ask is because I'm getting a bunch of the same SPAM over the course of a week or so. I'd like to be able to add the offensive email to the DB so that the NEXT time I get the SPAM, razor flags it as such. Do I need to set up a local razor DB instead?
I'm right there with you. I'm getting about 40 messages a day that are getting through at home and about 20 messages a day getting through at work. Any time I sit down in front of my machines, I religiously razor-report them. I expect that there are a few others doing the same thing. After a while, we'll start to get some duplication that's required to bring it to "known spam status".
I'm a little discouraged though. Most spam runs seem to be over in a day. If we don't get our results pushed in and accepted by the central db within a few hours, I'm not sure how much good we're really doing.
Blue skies... Todd
I've been averaging 50% of all spam being trapped by razor-report. So even if it's a day, it's working.
However, some numb-nuts has started razor-reporting all kinds of list postings of 'unsubscribe' to the mailing list and not mailing list request addresses. It's not this list, but I get a stack of false positives in my razor-spam folders because it's being reported as spam when it isn't really. So, I'm razor-revoking a stack every day. Not good for razor I guess.
But it definitely is effective.
Once I get to a point where I can go something like 1000 spams without a single false positive in my filters I can consider automating the razor-report process. But my bogofilter is still technically in training. I have a few hundred more spams to measure out.
BTW: my back up is not spamassassin, but bogofilter. It's running extremely fast and efficient. Much better than what I've ever seen with SpamAssassin, even with Bayes filtering enabled.
But I think the really important fact here is that I'm using something that isn't the most common spam filtering engine in the world. And as such, I stand a better than average chance of catching spam that you will miss on the assumption that spammers are fudging spam to pass SpamAssassin more than anything else.
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