Rick, nice to hear good words about NetAccess. I will definitely say hello to Gary and Tim. You must have left long ago (I have been with NetAccess with more than for 5 years).
As of SA we use. I will look into using RDJ rulesets since nobody minds :-) And Bayes as well. We don't use SURBL network tests because we use RBL lists from mail server itself. Thank you very much for offering a help if needed. Irina ========================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Irina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <users@spamassassin.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: Re: A question > Irina wrote: > > >Thank you all for answering me. > > > >I found one link that may be very interesting > >(http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets) > > > > > > > >I first should mention, I am a new SUBSCRIBER, not a new user to SA. I have > >been using it for a couple of years. Over that period I have created > >thousands of LOCAL_ rules (if I go and grep on describe or score in > >/etc/mail/spamassassin.... :-). If you only saw my MISSPELLES. The bad > >thing I was not writing it professionally, as I used \d+ for example, or too > >many | inside one rule. In short, they work, but not polished. > > > >What I found that creating own rules can be so competitive with a new spam > >coming in. As you know spam messages change every minute or so. What I am > >trying to achieve? Free up my time. There are few things I've thought > >about. > > > >I have been collecting spam (before discarding) for almost a month. Wrote a > >little program to rewrite LOCAL_ rules that were found and will not recreate > >the ones that were not caught. And I am about to redo all. > > > >Next, I thought if there is a place for automatic uploading rules, then may > >be notifying me and I would reload SA. That is what I asked in my email. > >It is bad that I want to free up my time by using somebody else's rules. > >Sorry, but may be someone shares. > > > >I also have NOT used Bayes. Don't know how safe it is. Would I just submit > >a spam message and I don't have to anything else, or ham the same way? Not > >sure. > > > >Thank you again. > >Let me know what you think. > > > > > > > Hi Irina, > > I'm an ex-NAS user myself (left because the ISP I work for now had DSL > for me for free, no other reason.). > > You should not feel bad for using the RDJ rulesets (other people's > rules) and you should also look into using Bayes as it can help > dramatically. > > I hope you are also using the SURBL network tests at that will also > catch about 80% of the spam that comes in. > > If you need any help with anything SA related, feel free to ask and you > can call me directly (I'm up by King's Forest). > > Say Hi to Gary and Tim for me and tell Gary that I found a good home for > the servers I offered him. > > Regards, > > Rick > >
