Hello Kevin, On Friday, June 10, 2005 at 15:15:36 GMT -0400 (which was 21:15:36 where I live), Kevin Coates wrote and made these valuable points on the subject of "spamalot":
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > Hi Philip, > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:51:48 +0100 (1:51 PM here), Philip Storry [PS] > wrote in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: KC>>> .... I think its safe to conclude that 3rd party relay type KC>>> solutions seem to offer better performance than the plug-ins.... PS>> I would disagree. PS>> A few posters to this list have had problems with the plugins. PS>> Often, they've not marked any ham as well as marking spam, or PS>> haven't marked enough of either. But those are just common reasons PS>> for the enquiry - I'm not going to say that those are the only PS>> reasons for bad performance of the plugins. > To be fair to the plugins, I rescan a significant amount of spam and > ham. I save all spam from my various accounts and rescan the last > couple of months. I do the same for my received messages both personal > mail and list mail. I never have to do this for SpamPal, which seems > to work right out of the box. > What I've noticed is even after a couple of weeks, the performance > never seems to improve. At least this is my personal experience. > Typically I'll get 50-60 spam/day between my various mail accounts. On > the plus side, the plugins seem pretty good at not erroneously tagging > ham as spam. In earlier posts, I've mentioned that I also tried both anti-spam plugins but due to their unreliable behavior I gave up and switched to Spambayes. Yesterday, I saw an article in a Dutch magazine about a brand new Dutch anti-spam program developed by students of the University of Maastricht for which they've won Euro 25.000. I just installed it and, though it's still an RC version, want to give it a try. If somebody is interested, here is the link:http://www.spamexperts.com/EN/se_home.htm If you want to know how the program is performing its task, have a look here: http://www.spamexperts.com/EN/tech_explained.htm Though I just installed it and received quite some ham mails, the program has not flagged one of these ham mails as spam....I'm still waiting for my first spam mail and wonder how the program will deal with it ... ;-) Best regards, Dick ___________________________________________________________ Actual Test Answers Music Teachers Have Recieved, #18: When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds. So would anybody. Using The Bat! v3.5.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Privacy is your right...only if you defend it: http://www.metropipe.net/landing.cgi?id=cloggy ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
