On 23.01.09 07:56, Dennis Hardy wrote: > Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( I've added rules to try to > catch common formats of included URLs in the spam, but I'm wary of scoring > these rules too high because of the potential for false positives. It's > hard to come up with other rules as the spam e-mail content is so generic. > By default these spams score incredibly low (bayes, etc.) In many cases, > the low bayes values are scoring negative, which completely offsets the few > positive scoring rules that I have added.
train bayes properly, it's the first thing you should do for such mail. > Are there other RBLs or domain checks or something that could be used to > possibly get more indication that a spam is a snowshoe spam from a "bogus" > domain? I've also added a meta rule that combines URIBL_BLACK, DCC_CHECK, > and my rules...but spam still gets by many times because it scores so > low/negative otherwise. Maybe I just need to score everything higher...? why are those scores low? What gives them negative score? those rules have quite high score... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.