On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:08 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: > Given the rather complete set of rules that ship with SA and which can > expanded with SARE, does bayes learning really help? Won't the rules catch > pretty much everything anyway?
I have used SA with Bayes and it took quite a bit of administrative overhead. It worked amazingly well, though. I now run SA with DCC, Razor, Pyzor and network checks and without Bayes and it still Just Works(TM). Seriously - I have customers who slather their e-mail addresses all over Usenet, message boards, on their web pages, etc. They might as well put a big sign up that says SPAM ME PLEASE!!! But they don't get any spam - SA and spamass-milter rejects all of it. It is really amazing - I've got clients who went from hundreds of spams per day down to one or two that slip through per week. Of course, when one gets through, my phone rings! I guess my experience is that either way, SA Just Works(TM). Cheers, Thomas
