Hi. First, thank you for making SpamBayes a free product. I truly appreciate your work, and you've done a fine job. I would like, however, to share just a couple of quick feedback items.
[-] I found that SpamBayes to be much less accurate "out of the box" than other free anti-spam products I've tested. It's my opinion that SpamBayes took much longer to train than I expected in order to reach a level of usefulness. I have fed SpamBayes well over 1000 spam messages. I have been more disturbed by the much higher number of false positives than by the spam that SpamBayes missed. But it has been working much better lately. I of course consider the possibility that the ever-changing tactics of the spammers is partly to blame. I haven't used a different anti-spam product in quite some time. [+] I love the Outlook integration. I like this much better than the common alternative of a local proxy. Thank you! [-] I don't like having a "Junk Suspects" folder. To me, this just means that I have two spam folders to manage instead of one. As a work around, I have just set both spam and spam suspects to go to the same Junk folder. I just made this change, so I don't yet know if this will cause any problems, but I don't see why it should. I just wanted to let you know that I think it's not overly useful, to have the Suspects folder I mean, if the spam is getting separated from my Inbox in the first place, and I have to evaluate it anyway, that it should all be in the same spam folder. My previous comment about "ever-changing tactics" on the part of the spammers should be a good example of the fact that what is and isn't spam is hard to determine. Therefore, I cannot (and should not) trust 100% that everything that goes into the Junk folder really is spam, and that everything that goes into the Suspects folder isn't spam. Hence, I have to manage both. Thanks for your time, and thanks again for SpamBayes! Best Regards, -scott _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
