On 6/29/2011 4:08 AM, Erik Ohrnberger wrote:
I gave up on spambayes. It was letting too much spam through. At one time,
it was batting 100, but I guess the spammers got smarter or something.
I'm using a gmail account now forwarded to a private (secret) inbox that my
outlook pulls down.
Same here (minus the Outlook part). Spammers won because Spambayes
didn't keep up, IMO. Letting us define a list of word filters and rules
to apply prior to letting Spambayes do its Bayesian thing would be a
vast improvement to the product despite what the devs claim. I know my
e-mail better than any computer does or likely ever will.
Spambayes also isn't very good about enforcing balanced ham/spam. It
works best with equal parts and small numbers of ham and spam but never
actually enforces either policy. 99% of what comes into many people's
in-boxes is spam. The solution spammers came up with to get through
Spambayes was simply to generate more spam and hope people would
overtrain Bayesian filters, which is exactly what constantly happens
with Spambayes. Bayesian-like filters are hard to work with and really
need a trainer analyzer. A good trainer analyzer will keep the filter
free of things that would not produce effective results. In this case,
the elimination of spam and limited false positives.
I can open my mouth here because I've actually done some development on
this open source product. Or at least attempted to. My contributions a
few years ago were effectively rejected, which pretty much killed any
potential future efforts on my behalf. I happen to have some pretty
solid C++ COM Outlook add-in development street cred, so the Spambayes
devs ruined an opportunity to pick up a Windows developer with the
requisite knowledge.
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Thomas Hruska
CubicleSoft President
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system for web developers operating in a team environment.
An open source CubicleSoft initiative.
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