On Fri, May 07, 2004, David wrote: > You didn't tell us which spam filter, but spamassassin was catching less > than 50% spams when I stopped using it.
SpamAssassin has Bayesian filtering too these days. People who are already using it should probably try its sa-learn utility before jumping spam filters. For what it's worth, I use SpamAssassin with the learner, and it catches about 99% of all spam sent to me (this does mean a false negative about 3 times a week though), and hasn't caught a non-spam in months -- I do use whitelists for some organisations though. I train it on all my spam and non-spam, and I train it every week on mail received during that week. (With a cronjob, I just need to make sure false negatives and positives are moved into an appropriate folder.) I don't delete the existing token database ever. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
