2 thoughts from me:
1. Right on on the Nigerian scams, possible keeping these rules longer. As I was
forwarding out a Nigerian scam to the spam mailbox, I too wondered how long the
Nigerian rules were kept in play. I might also add Nigeria's twin sister the
International Lottery spam and Stock
Scott,
Regarding my Cyrillic and Chinese filters, I did a review of a full
week's held spam, looking for foreign languages and patterns to tag. I
found from other research that the primary Chinese characterset,
GB2312, contains the Western Latin characterset, and so someone could
send an
Interesting.
Are you searching for 2 character pairs with GB2312?
Scott Fisher
Director of IT
Farm Progress Companies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/04 01:46PM
Scott,
Regarding my Cyrillic and Chinese filters, I did a review of a full
week's held spam, looking for foreign languages and patterns to
At 01:42 PM 5/21/2004, you wrote:
Pete,
Our Hold range has returned to more normal territory on Thursday.
Here's the stats from
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One of my thoughts regarding
minimum rule strengths and grace periods is that all groups aren't
necessarily the same. For instance Nigerian scams are low volume
Crew,
I reposrted this speed issue before, but despite very
intensive debugging and testing, we have not found an external cause (meaning:
not sniffer) for the following:
When I use sniffer without the persisten flag, I get
this log:
Pete,
I noted late last night that my rulebase grew by 700 KB over the size of
the previous one that was archived on my machine, and also the hits for
some of the tests were noticeably lower and I had a definite increase in
the number of messages that scored in my Hold range (instead of scoring
At 12:57 PM 5/19/2004, you wrote:
Pete,
I noted late last night that my rulebase grew by 700 KB over the size of
the previous one that was archived on my machine, and also the hits for
some of the tests were noticeably lower and I had a definite increase in
the number of messages that scored in
Pete,
I was judging based on the size of our Hold range which scores from
10-24. On Monday that was 1.86% of total traffic, but on Tuesday that
was 2.83%. Message volume was hardly different. Other notables were
that on Monday, Sniffer hit 77.27% of all E-mail but on Tuesday it hit
74.53%
