On Friday 24 January 2003 04:15, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Quoth Amit Margalit on Wed, Jan 22, 2003: > > I use a combination of SpamAssassin and Razor. Very good. > > SpamAssassin is quite effective, indeed. I have no experience > with Razor.
FWIW - I tried SpamAssassin and Razor, but the overhead caused by Razor was too much. Instead of downloading 50 e-mails in a minute or so, it took almost an hour!!!!! I checked the headings added by SpamAssassin and discovered that none of the detected spam was because of Razor - the internal SpamAssassin rules were doing all the work. In any case, I disabled Razor and use only SpamAssassin with fairly good (but far from perfect) results. Here are some observations about my results: 1 - as stated above Razor adds too much overhead and little benefit 2 - in three weeks SpamAssassin caught 350 spams and missed 120 3 - in the first couple of days, there were a few false positives, but that was easy to tune and lately there are none. 4 - since I'm using SpamAssassin on KMail, I decided to move some of my filters up in the list so they'd be checked before SpamAssassin - that way, I speeded up the proccess. 5 - I'm considering changing sensitivity from the default 5 to 4. Nearly half of the missed spams had scores between 4 and 5. 6 - I'm also considering raising the number of points given to certain words like Via***, pus**, mortgage, etc. I'd be interested to hear comments about 5 and 6 since I haven't done them yet. -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail (KDE 3.0.3) on LINUX Mandrake 9.0 ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
