When I post analyze results, I typically obscure all IP's and addresses.

PBWhite is the white penalty box, the list of good IP's.   See pbDB.  You
can view those entries that are whitelisted there.

Maybe it's a good idea to start over with the penaltybox?  Sounds like
that's not right either.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Miles Gaynor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmm, I'm still getting spam arriving even though it has spam prob of 1.0
> from Bayesian.
> Does "* is in PB White" mean the sender is whitelisted? If so... I've got
> a problem :(
> Is there an accepted way to post an asspanalyze result to the list?
> Thanks,
> Miles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: K Post [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 01 June 2015 14:51
> To: For Users of ASSP
> Subject: Re: [Assp-user] I think I'm doing something wrong
>
> I've always used subject name logging for that very reason, but the random
> numbered file names takes less maintenance.  If you're using subject name
> logging make sure that you have the maintenance tasks set to do their
> thing, to keep the number of messages under control.
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Miles Gaynor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply, it is really helpful. I'm experiencing much
> > better results with HMM set to monitor, I will continue to test. The
> > Bayesian filters seems to be doing very well on its own, but I'll
> > investigate the corpus further as you recommend. I'll have to switch
> > back to subject name logging first.
> > I do appreciate this!
> > Miles
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: K Post [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 29 May 2015 15:32
> > To: For Users of ASSP
> > Subject: Re: [Assp-user] I think I'm doing something wrong
> >
> > I agree with your analysis of the problem.  Why it's happening, I
> > can't say
> > -
> > I'm sure Thomas will chime in, but in the interim, if you're not
> > fining HMM reliable (please check more than just the 1 message)
> > consider turning it to monitor mode instead of scoring/blocking so
> > that the HMM inaccuracies don't cause poor results, at least that's what
> I would do.
> >
> > I went through this when first turning on HMM.  Turns out that the
> > corpus wasn't great, an bayesian wasn't perfect either.  I use subject
> > name logging which helps my identify incorrectly classified messages
> > in the corpus.  I sorted the spam, not-spam, and errors folders by
> > name.  Then I eyeballed the filenames, looking for obvious errors.  I
> > also used messages from ok mail an discarded that I manually reviewed
> > and moved to spam/not-spam to help learn.  It's a tedious process, but
> > necessary IMO when the corpus is too far out of whack.
> >
> > I also run a block report for all addresses sent to me nightly, and
> > review every single block.  Of course this doesn't show bad mail that
> > is delivered
> > - I rely on users to report those, and they're starting to.  Big help.
> >
> > Hope this helps you get the server running as it should.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Miles Gaynor <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > > I've noticed a large increase in spam recently, mainly from
> > > marketing types sending me genuine marketing that I don't actually
> > > want. I assumed that was because the messages were convincing but I
> > > sent one to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> > > and this is the final part of the message.
> > >
> > >
> > > Bayesian Spam Probability:
> > > combined probability:
> > >
> > > 1.00000000 - got 111 - used 60 most significant results
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > Hidden-Markov-Model Spam Probability:
> > > combined HMM spam probability:
> > >
> > > 0.0000 - got 44 - used 44 most significant results
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If I'm reading that correctly, the Bayesian filter is working fine
> > > but the HMM isn't agreeing with it.
> > > Could you give me a clue? (yes, I'm pretty clueless).
> > > Thank you,
> > > Miles
> > >
> > >
> > >
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