Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-23 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Mike Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In response to my complaint of weak rules out of box: I have rtfm (INSTALL, USAGE, website). It states (step #7 in INSTALL file): [...] Just use the GTUBE string for testing that SpamAssassin can correctly mark a message as spam. The GTUBE string is

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Tom Meunier
It's not abysmal. You just don't understand it. Most people get in excess of 99% of spam with SpamAssassin. Isn't it great to know that SpamAssassin is so well geared against false positives that you're TRYING to send a spammy email and can't do it? http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:36 PM 9/21/03 -0700, Mike Klein wrote: Basically email consisted of an all caps subject INCREASE YOUR PEN*S SIZE NOW!!! and several lines in the body with same text and a url to go to. BTW, I didn't make the above typo in my email...I spelled the organ part correctly. snip Why is the

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Fred
Hello, Do not assume we know which version of SA you are using. This information is really helpful. Do you use Bayes? (is it trained with 200 spam 200 ham)? Do you use Auto-White List? (Possible reason for your troubles.) You can fine tune the scores all you like, if you find a test which you

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Klein
' email below. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Meunier Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box... It's not abysmal. You just don't understand