----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:10 AM Subject: NEWBIE: Not extremely happy with SA filtering so far
> SpamAssassins, > > I've been trying out CommuniGate in conjunction with SpamAssassin for a > while, and I must say my old client-side filter (Spammunition) caught a > lot more spams than the default setup of SpamAssassin are doing now. I > have the overall score threshold set to 5.0, but a lot of spam has only > a score of 2-3 anyway. I probably have to tweak it a lot more in order > to catch the subset of spam aimed to my addresses. > > In particular I need some more rules that can take all the viagra > variants (like Generi*c V-iagra Half Price Guaran-teed etc). > > Forgive me being a total novice, is it a central storage where rules can > be downloaded and deployed (probably need a how-to description as well)? > > Any input/comments would be much appreciated. > I'm new too - Initially I settled on a threshhold of 2.4, and this got most things with a few false positives. Then I trained my Bayes with 400 spams and 200-some hams and added most of the rules from http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm Now my threshhold is back up to 5.0 and it's almost perfect for me! Good luck - John
