SpamAssassin Failing?

[Scott Selikoff]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this mailing list so I apologize if the following question has been asked before.  When I first installed SA on my server, it ran perfectly and blocked a lot of spam for my users.  Recently over the past 3 weeks, it seems as if SpamAssassin is almost completely failing to block spam.  Messages are getting through now at an average of 3-4 a day, whereas before they had been blocked.

I did some searching on the Web and I came across other users reporting this same problem over the last few weeks.  It seems that the majority of spammers have begun specifically writing their messages to defeat the SpamAssassin detection software.

Although this may be something I can fix with settings changes, given the widespread nature of this new problem and the amount of messages now getting through, are there any plans to update SA to deal with this new problem?

Thanks in advance,
Scott Selikoff