Code 2, on Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 4:44:07 PM, you wrote:

> I didn't try Agava Antispam Servant, but I have tried BayesIt, K9 and
> SpamPal.  SpamPal was nearly 100% accurate for a long, long time, but
> started missing a large proportion of the HTML stock tip spam.  I've
> never had a false positive with SpamPal.  It's a nice
> set-it-and-forget-it spam filter.

> K9 was okay, but it seemed to need constant training (at least it did
> for the type of spam I get).  It also gave a lot of false positives,
> so I had to monitor my spam folder regularly.

> I never understood why, but I was getting about 10% accuracy with
> BayesIt despite training it with hundreds of spam and non-spam
> messages.  I was frustrated, so I dumped it.

> As you can see, my criteria for a good spam filter are accuracy, no
> false positives, and ease of training.  Free is nice, too :)

Thanks. You have saved me a lot of time, and, probably, frustration.

Leonard

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