Re: Image spam help

2013-09-16 Thread Ian Turner
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 09:44:21 AM Olivier Nicole wrote: My only restriction is that FuzzyOCR uses it's own list of spam words instead of pushing back the decoded text to SA for SA to analyze. This is necessary because of the poor quality of the OCR. It's only going to be useful if the

Re: ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT et al

2013-08-02 Thread Ian Turner
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 11:31:57 PM Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: You have trained more ham than spam. That's not necessarily a problem, and opinions differ greatly. But it might be indication your Bayes is skewed. Hmm. I'm not really sure how that can be. Anything detected as spam is

Re: ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT et al

2013-07-25 Thread Ian Turner
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 05:15:19 AM Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 21:53 -0400, Ian Turner wrote: They are moderately low-scoring, sadly (I wouldn't have noticed otherwise!), mainly due to bayes poison. A typical message looks like this: Do you manually train them

ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT et al

2013-07-24 Thread Ian Turner
Hello list, I notice that the old rule ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT was dropped starting in SpamAssassin 3.3 (The change is in bug 5123 and commit 467038). Lately, however, I've started getting a lot of spam again where the To: address is in the subject. Perhaps it's time to evaluate restoring this

Re: ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT et al

2013-07-24 Thread Ian Turner
On Thursday, July 25, 2013 03:23:39 AM Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 20:28 -0400, Ian Turner wrote: I notice that the old rule ADDRESS_IN_SUBJECT was dropped starting in SpamAssassin 3.3 (The change is in bug 5123 and commit 467038). Lately, however, I've started getting

Re: Dev-nulling is a bad idea [Was: Verifying .procmailrc settings to delete high scoring spam messages]

2013-04-09 Thread Ian Turner
On Monday, April 08, 2013 05:06:57 PM Walter Hurry wrote: I agree that dev-nulling is generally a bad idea, but there may be exceptions. For example, I dump everything from hinet.net straight onto the floor. FWIW, I get ham from hinet.net. IMHO, it is not appropriate to drop mail no matter

Re: False negatives with distinctive punctuated subjects

2012-11-22 Thread Ian Turner
On Friday, October 19, 2012 01:55:33 PM John Wilcock wrote: Le 19/10/2012 13:22, Ian Turner a écrit : I meant something to specifically pick out words like phArmACy. You could try a rule with a negative lookahead to exclude the correct casing, something like this (untested): Curiously, I

Re: False negatives with distinctive punctuated subjects

2012-10-19 Thread Ian Turner
Hi Martin, On Friday, October 19, 2012 03:04:44 AM Martin Gregorie wrote: 3. Speaking of Penis, I'm surprised there isn't already a rule looking for the word in subjects, let alone in combination with Enlarge. Is this intentional? The rule: header RULENAME Subkect =~

False negatives with distinctive punctuated subjects

2012-10-18 Thread Ian Turner
already a rule looking for the word in subjects, let alone in combination with Enlarge. Is this intentional? 4. I see there is already a rule for puctuation-obfuscated subjects; what about one for case-obfuscated subjects? 4. Any other advice on how to fix this? Cheers, --Ian Turner

Re: New Rule: OE_MULTIPART_RELATED

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Turner
On Monday 04 December 2006 01:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this would trap mail using outlook stationery. I dont really like it, but I get it in wanted mail. Yup. All of the FPs in my corpus are outlook messages with inline images. But it turns out that some of those are also spam; the actual

Re: New Rule: OE_MULTIPART_RELATED

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Turner
On Monday 04 December 2006 16:19, John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Ian Turner wrote: When used in combination with, say, DC_GIF_UNO_LARGO, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, and RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET, this rule can help make a more solid prediction. The perceptron doesn't create meta rules

New Rule: OE_MULTIPART_RELATED

2006-12-03 Thread Ian Turner
in conjunction with Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ImageInfo. Thoughts on this rule? --Ian Turner