On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Sam Phillips wrote: > I currently use procmail + bogofilter which gets a good percentage of > the spam that I receive. The beauty of it is the more spam you get the > less you have to look at.
I've been playing around with Bayes, the bayesian classifier included with SpamAssassin 2.50, which gets it's same roots from as bogofilter (why they didn't just use bogofilter, I don't know), and I've learned something. Specifically, it takes a TON of email and time to properly train a bayesian filter. I've fed it about 4000 emails and about 1000 spams, and it's still not performing optimally. In a couple cases, SA by itself would have classified the message as spam, but Bayes didn't think it was spam and lowered the score just enough to make it through. I'll keep on working on training it better, though. I consider it a challenge to get rid of those 3-4 daily spams that make it through spamassassin. RF _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
