> > What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected > > if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the > > spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam. > > I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know you get very high hit rates > with this, but it doesn't make any allowances for false positives - > if I make a list of "banned words" like this, one of them is _sure_ > to turn up one day.
Yeah I have this enabled in a school environment and the majority of the words I have in the list either way are not suitable for a school environment. > I don't plan to dump the detected spam to /dev/null, but to a > separate folder (SpamAssassin is already doing this nicely with the % > age it detects) but my suspicion is that users will probably never > check that Junk folder once they find it rarely contains anything of > interest. Again some kids dont check their mail and dont bother to maintain their inbox so putting the spam in a seperate folder would just allow it to accumulate. -- Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." - Mark Twain -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
