DMD>> I have noticed that some members of TBUDL are using SpamPal DMD>> (http://www.spampal.org/) with The Bat!.
MR> I used SpamPal for awhile. It can be big and slow. K9 is much faster and about 99% accurate. MR> I had bad experiences with the BayesIt plug-in for TB. I got MR> over my fears and reinstalled it again 3 weeks ago because I do MR> not want to run a separate program for filtering. It took about a MR> week to train it properly (my error last time I tried). I receive MR> about 500 e-mails daily, 75 or so are SPAM. The last five days of MR> BayesIt, it's accuracy rate has been: 100%, 100%, 99.789%, 100%, MR> 99.889%. I whitelist all of my news groups and let BayesIt sort MR> the rest. I've been using K9 with The Bat! for nearly a month now, and it does a decent job at 98.37% accuracy. Most of the inaccuracy is good e-mails that have been misclassified as spam, so regular intervention (to re-classify) is necessary. It doesn't take a lot of time, but it's a must-do. The problem is that spammers are getting better at fooling bayesian filters by including non-spam words to lower their spaminess scores, so good e-mail inevitably includes words that are in both the spam word database and good word database. If you're going to use K9, my two suggestions are to make use of the whitelist filter (particularly for mail list mail) and to spend the time to learn how to formally train it with a collection of several hundred spam e-mails. I use SpamPal on another computer with Lookout Express, and it is nearly 100% accurate, with no false positives. You will be happy with either K9 or SpamPal, though I would say SpamPal is more appropriate if you want a set-it-and-forget-it application (except for periodic updates). -- Code 2 :canadaflag: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! version 2.12.00 on Windows XP Service Pack 2 Outside a second-hand store: We exchange anything - bicycles, washing machines etc. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
