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Re: Unusual spam recently - hummm



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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 at 07:26:30PM -0400, s. keeling wrote:
> > Let me warn you.  Bogofilter requires training a database.  You may not
> 
> Much appreciated.  That prompted me to read the man page before I let
> it bite me.  :-)

NP.

> > handful of a few hundred spam messages and a few hundred ham messages to
> > shoot at it right away.  use cat to pipe the messages/MBOX files through
> > bogofilter -n and bogofilter -s.
> 
> That would be "bogofilter -Mn < ~/Mail/spam" for mbox style, no?

Yes, the -M option would indicate to bogo that this is an MBOX.

> > If you are interested I can try bzip2ing my wordlist.db and sending it
> > to you via http.  Email me off-list if you would like this.  This
> 
> Again, much appreciated.  I'll just start banging my head on it and
> see what I can come up with.

You can visit http://www.spamarchive.org/ and download other people's
spam to train your filters <G>.

Warning: Just throwing a bunch of spam at your filters w/o giving it any
ham will likely result in falsely high bogosity scores (false-rejects)
since there is no ham tokens to reduce the score.

HTH,

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Phillip Hofmeister

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