Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread M.W. Chang
did you train the filter by flagging all those slipped messages as junk?
iF you just delete them, the filter would not be improved!

 I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. 
 And have been somewhat disappointed in the filters. It catches alot of 
 the junk right away, but it doesn't seem to be learning. I get the same 
 spam from the same scammers every day and no matter how many times I 
 flag it as junk it continues to show up. But it is a 0.7 Beta so I don't 
 want to be critical of it, just hope they flesh it out in the near future.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Hipp
M.W. Chang wrote:
did you train the filter by flagging all those slipped messages as junk?
iF you just delete them, the filter would not be improved!
Yes. I always hit the 'Junk' button which promptly gets them out of my 
sight and into the Junk folder. This seemed to work great on Mozilla but 
I suspect something is unfinished in Thunderbird. The same messages just 
keep getting thru. Likely it will be working in a later beta release.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-15 Thread M.W. Chang
I had that problem with spam-assassin' Bayesian filter. I actually tried
using the Junk folder of mozilla to train SA (sa-learn --mbox --spam
Junk). Until now, there are still some Chinese junk messages passing
through the sanity check of SA.

Michael Hipp wrote:
 Yes. I always hit the 'Junk' button which promptly gets them out of my 
 sight and into the Junk folder. This seemed to work great on Mozilla but 
 I suspect something is unfinished in Thunderbird. The same messages just 
 keep getting thru. Likely it will be working in a later beta release.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread M.W. Chang

It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than
SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while
mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception.

 It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the
 cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the fact that enlarge and
 p...s frequently occur together, and sum the probabilities. To do it right
 is hard.
 
 I used to run a Bayesian filter at work, until they disabled Unix e-mail
 at the end of October, and it worked fairly well.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
M.W. Chang wrote:
It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than
SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while
mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception.
I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. 
And have been somewhat disappointed in the filters. It catches alot of 
the junk right away, but it doesn't seem to be learning. I get the same 
spam from the same scammers every day and no matter how many times I 
flag it as junk it continues to show up. But it is a 0.7 Beta so I don't 
want to be critical of it, just hope they flesh it out in the near future.

Michael

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Tim Wunder
On 11/14/2003 8:34 AM, I believe that Michael Hipp wrote:

M.W. Chang wrote:

It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than
SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while
mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception.


I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. 
You have? How did you get the stand alone browser product to do e-mail?

Perhaps you mean Thunderbird. ;-)

And have been somewhat disappointed in the filters. It catches alot of 
the junk right away, but it doesn't seem to be learning. I get the same 
spam from the same scammers every day and no matter how many times I 
flag it as junk it continues to show up. But it is a 0.7 Beta so I don't 
want to be critical of it, just hope they flesh it out in the near future.
FWIW, Mozilla's intergrated MUA is still better than the stand alone 
Thunderbird. I suspect it's gonna take longer than they originally 
thought to get it up to speed.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 14 November 2003 9:09 am, Collins Richey wrote:
 Agrred.  Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the
 once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be
 expected. I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's
 quite good. Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to just go
 poof (TM)  than earlier versions; segfault I presume.  Perhaps I
 should resume the practice of getting the CVS versions.

Hmmm  I don't think I've ever seen .7 go poof   Perhaps it's your 
.   naw  I won't go there...  :-)

But it's been rock solid here.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:34:36 -0600 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 M.W. Chang wrote:
  It seems that mozilla's built-in bayesian filter works better than
  SpamAssassin. Until now, SA failed to identify many Chinese spam while
  mozilla can correctly move them into the Junk folder on reception.
 
 I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. 
 And have been somewhat disappointed in the filters. It catches alot of 
 the junk right away, but it doesn't seem to be learning. I get the same 
 spam from the same scammers every day and no matter how many times I 
 flag it as junk it continues to show up. But it is a 0.7 Beta so I don't 
 want to be critical of it, just hope they flesh it out in the near future.
 

Agrred.  Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the
once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be expected. 
I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's quite good. 
Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to just go poof (TM)  than earlier
versions; segfault I presume.  Perhaps I should resume the practice of getting
the CVS versions.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Tim Wunder wrote:

I've been using Moz Firebird as my only email for quite some time now. 


You have? How did you get the stand alone browser product to do e-mail?

Perhaps you mean Thunderbird. ;-)
Hehe. I still think of them as one.

  FWIW, Mozilla's intergrated MUA is still better than the stand alone
Thunderbird. I suspect it's gonna take longer than they originally 
thought to get it up to speed.
Yes, tho they seem to be making great speed. But even as a 0.3 Beta it's 
a better prog than either of the Outlooks.

Overall, I give the Moz team a High Five for their work on 
Thunder/Firebird.

Michael

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote:

Agrred.  Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the
once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be expected. 
I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's quite good. 
Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to just go poof (TM)  than earlier
versions; segfault I presume.  Perhaps I should resume the practice of getting
the CVS versions.
I've had zero stability problems with Firebird (browser). This on both 
Win and Linux. And I've always used the release beta versions and the 
binaries from the T-Bird site. Thunderbird (email) has occasionally hung 
on me, but a kill  restart always fixed it.

Michael



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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:19:45AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
 On Friday 14 November 2003 9:09 am, Collins Richey wrote:
  Agrred.  Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the
  once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be
  expected. I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's
  quite good. Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to just go
  poof (TM)  than earlier versions; segfault I presume.  Perhaps I
  should resume the practice of getting the CVS versions.
 
 Hmmm  I don't think I've ever seen .7 go poof   Perhaps it's your 
 .   naw  I won't go there...  :-)
 
 But it's been rock solid here.

I've been getting the same problem as Collins myself (on Slackware 9.1). 
Being too lazy to build it myself, I've been using the pre-built version 
with xft enabled. I just attributed it to that fact. Did you build your
own by any chance?

HAND

Myles

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 14 November 2003 10:13 am, Myles Green wrote:
 On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:19:45AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
  On Friday 14 November 2003 9:09 am, Collins Richey wrote:
   Agrred.  Since Mozilla have indicated that Firebird is the
   once-and-future-browser, it would seem that improvements are to be
   expected. I've been using Firebird since it's early days, and it's
   quite good. Nevertheless, 0.7 has more of a propensity to just go
   poof (TM)  than earlier versions; segfault I presume.  Perhaps I
   should resume the practice of getting the CVS versions.
 
  Hmmm  I don't think I've ever seen .7 go poof   Perhaps it's
  your .   naw  I won't go there...  :-)
 
  But it's been rock solid here.

 I've been getting the same problem as Collins myself (on Slackware
 9.1). Being too lazy to build it myself, I've been using the pre-built
 version with xft enabled. I just attributed it to that fact. Did you
 build your own by any chance?

 HAND

 Myles

Nope...  just downloaded the tarball..   Running it on both SuSE 9.0  and 
8.2


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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:23:16AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
   Hmmm  I don't think I've ever seen .7 go poof   Perhaps it's
   your .   naw  I won't go there...  :-)
  
   But it's been rock solid here.
 
  I've been getting the same problem as Collins myself (on Slackware
  9.1). Being too lazy to build it myself, I've been using the pre-built
  version with xft enabled. I just attributed it to that fact. Did you
  build your own by any chance?
 
  HAND
 
  Myles
 
 Nope...  just downloaded the tarball..   Running it on both SuSE 9.0  and 
 8.2

Hmmm... then it must be something else that Collins and I have in common.


My hardware:
Athlon 1800+
1.5GB PC2700 DDR RAM (Samsung)
nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 (using nvidia drivers)
PS/2 keyboard
USB wheel mouse (Logitech) using IMPS/2 protocol

I've run Memtest86 on the RAM, one stick at a time and all three at once,
with no errors - even after 48 hours. FWIW, I'm not running a 2.6 kernel yet.

My symptoms are that X keeps crashing with no errors showing in the logs. It's
gotten so bad I gave up using X several days ago and gone back to the basics
as my signature suggests.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Myles Green wrote:
 My hardware:
 Athlon 1800+
 1.5GB PC2700 DDR RAM (Samsung)
 nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 (using nvidia drivers)
 PS/2 keyboard
 USB wheel mouse (Logitech) using IMPS/2 protocol

 I've run Memtest86 on the RAM, one stick at a time and all three at once,
 with no errors - even after 48 hours. FWIW, I'm not running a 2.6 kernel yet.

 My symptoms are that X keeps crashing with no errors showing in the logs. It's
 gotten so bad I gave up using X several days ago and gone back to the basics
 as my signature suggests.

What version of X?  Define 'crashing'.  Are we talking about locking up
the box so that you can't even ping it, or just X going toes up?

You might want to try running CTCS (search freshmeat) on the box.  It
stresses (and tests) all the hardware far better than memtest86.  Have you
verified that this isn't an overheating problem, or dust bunnies?

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:51:20 -0700 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:23:16AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Hmmm  I don't think I've ever seen .7 go poof   Perhaps it's
your .   naw  I won't go there...  :-)
   
But it's been rock solid here.
  
   I've been getting the same problem as Collins myself (on Slackware
   9.1). Being too lazy to build it myself, I've been using the pre-built
   version with xft enabled. I just attributed it to that fact. Did you
   build your own by any chance?
  
   HAND
  
   Myles
  
  Nope...  just downloaded the tarball..   Running it on both SuSE 9.0  and 
  8.2
 
 Hmmm... then it must be something else that Collins and I have in common.
 
 
 My hardware:
 Athlon 1800+
 1.5GB PC2700 DDR RAM (Samsung)
 nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 (using nvidia drivers)
 PS/2 keyboard
 USB wheel mouse (Logitech) using IMPS/2 protocol
 
 I've run Memtest86 on the RAM, one stick at a time and all three at once,
 with no errors - even after 48 hours. FWIW, I'm not running a 2.6 kernel yet.
 
 My symptoms are that X keeps crashing with no errors showing in the logs. It's
 gotten so bad I gave up using X several days ago and gone back to the basics
 as my signature suggests.
 

My hardware is similar but PC133 ram, only PS/2 stuff, no USB at present, using
the nvidia 4496 drivers, Kernel 2.6.test8.

The kernel frequently logs some non-critical errors generated by the
nvidia crap, but X never dies, nor do any apps fail for the most part.

When I say poof, I should be more specific - maybe 3 times in 3 months.  The
failures are random - once after a download completed; the other times
retreiving a new page with several tabs open.  I'm using a binary installed via
a standard gentoo package.

Other than this I can give Firebird 0.7 a clean bill of health, well almost.  I
do encounter the occasional url with a webpage that doesn't format very
well, but that's probably due to some ie6-specific stuff in the page.

In your case, Myles, I would suspect nvidia drivers, USB mouse, combination of
all of the above with acpi, or ???, probably nothing to do with Firebird.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:20:41PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
 In your case, Myles, I would suspect nvidia drivers, USB mouse, combination of
 all of the above with acpi, or ???, probably nothing to do with Firebird.

I thought about the drivers too but this has been happening with the nv driver
and the fbdev driver as well. I also took out apm and have tried both a PS/2 
and USB mouse (no, not at the same time ;).

It's, and I'm guessing here, probably my video card slowly dyeing. It got pretty
warm in here over the summer and I know my CPU hit 67 deg. C on one day in 
particular, despite the 5 case fans and $$$ CPU cooler. The vid card just has 
the stock heat-sink and fan.

The X crashes started out at perhaps 2 or 3 a month and have gradually increased
to 2 or 3 an hour.

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:08:00PM -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
 On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Myles Green wrote:
  My hardware:
  Athlon 1800+
  1.5GB PC2700 DDR RAM (Samsung)
  nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 (using nvidia drivers)
  PS/2 keyboard
  USB wheel mouse (Logitech) using IMPS/2 protocol
 
  I've run Memtest86 on the RAM, one stick at a time and all three at once,
  with no errors - even after 48 hours. FWIW, I'm not running a 2.6 kernel yet.
 
  My symptoms are that X keeps crashing with no errors showing in the logs. It's
  gotten so bad I gave up using X several days ago and gone back to the basics
  as my signature suggests.
 
 What version of X?  Define 'crashing'.  Are we talking about locking up
 the box so that you can't even ping it, or just X going toes up?

XFree86-4.3.0, no lock-ups just toes up.
 
 You might want to try running CTCS (search freshmeat) on the box.  It
 stresses (and tests) all the hardware far better than memtest86.  Have you
 verified that this isn't an overheating problem, or dust bunnies?

No dust bunnies but this is one of the warmest houses I've seen in a while, it
faces south and gets the sun all day long. (great for house plants, not so for
'puters). See my reply to Collins for a bit more detail on the heat. Right now,
the CPU is 50.5 C and the mobo is 29 C with a ~20 C ambient temp in this room.
I'd crank down the thermostat but then I'd catch it from the other occupants.
I move out the end of this month into a much cooler environment... too late for 
the vid card in this box. Much too late for the box that was running the sxs 
mirror unfortunately.

Thanks for the tip (CTCS), I'll have to give it a go.

Myles

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-13 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:47:21 -0600
Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:16 +0800
 M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner?
  I wonder where SA stores her rules.
  
 
 It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all
 ignore the cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the fact
 that enlarge and p...s frequently occur together, and sum the
 probabilities. To do it right is hard.

Most of the e-mail that gets to me uses . scattered throughout the
text.  Like th.is so the fi.lte.rs don't see th.is as a co.mple.te
wor.d.  They need to remove the . sprinkled throughout the text.

 
 I used to run a Bayesian filter at work, until they disabled Unix
 e-mail at the end of October, and it worked fairly well.
 
 At home I run a homebrew. First I run a whitelist of known good
 addresses, then I look for e-mail lists, then spamassassin, and then I
 run my UniqIP filter. I keep a little database of every IP I have seen
 in the handoff to my ISPs, and if I have never seen it before, I drop
 it into a special folder. I also note spam IP's in the database as
 well. About 95% of my spam currently comes from unique IP's.
 Apparently the blacklists are effective enough that the big time
 spammers now use a Hedy Lamar style multiplexing technology, and
 blast small loads from many compromised systems.

Some use much lower technology strategies like this one (an e-mail I
received):
/* begin e-mail:
Hello,

I need 2 dedicated windows 2000 servers with at least 2,000 ip
addresses.

These servers will be used to run my email campaign and send bulk email
in
direct mode with my own optin mailing software. If you are in a
position,
and have a dedicated network setup to deal with the complaints generated
from my email advertising I would be willing to pay $2,000 a month for
the 2
servers. I need a reliable provider to set me up immediately. If you can
offer me such service please call me at: xxx-xxx-xxx, Leave me a message
and I will get back to you right away. Please dont reply back to this
email,
only call me.

Thanks
Bob
end e-mail */
There are probably stupid ISPs out there that will do this.  Can't
believe he only offered a measley 2k/month.  For this kind of headache,
I'd need a couple more zeroes added to that number.  Wonder if he got
any takers?

 
 I'm also working on a spam detector utilizing DNA sequencing
 technology. Seriously!

Start by sequencing lower life forms, since that's what spammers seem to
be.

Ciao,

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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-12 Thread Alan Jackson
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:16 +0800
M.W. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner?
 I wonder where SA stores her rules.
 

It's not *really* Bayesian - I don't think any of them are. They all ignore the
cross-correlation. That is, they don't correct for the fact that enlarge and
p...s frequently occur together, and sum the probabilities. To do it right
is hard.

I used to run a Bayesian filter at work, until they disabled Unix e-mail
at the end of October, and it worked fairly well.

At home I run a homebrew. First I run a whitelist of known good addresses,
then I look for e-mail lists, then spamassassin, and then I run my
UniqIP filter. I keep a little database of every IP I have seen in the
handoff to my ISPs, and if I have never seen it before, I drop it into
a special folder. I also note spam IP's in the database as well. About 95%
of my spam currently comes from unique IP's. Apparently the blacklists
are effective enough that the big time spammers now use a Hedy Lamar style
multiplexing technology, and blast small loads from many compromised systems.

I'm also working on a spam detector utilizing DNA sequencing technology. 
Seriously!

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2003-11-11 Thread M.W. Chang
have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner?
I wonder where SA stores her rules.
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Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-11 Thread M.W. Chang
sorry, I found it in the doc. it's in users' home directories or be
specified by bayes_path in site config file local.cf.

M.W. Chang wrote:
 have you ever toyed with the Bayesian learner?
 I wonder where SA stores her rules.
 

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