Re: Spam filter reviews?

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

> spamassassin does bayesian filtering in the version currently in sid.

  I noticed, but how?

  It wasn't clear to me from the man page that you could build a "good"
  word lists as well as a "spam" word list. The man page implies that
  only a spam word list would get generated with -r and these words
  would be removed with -k, which doesn't work at all. Nor did the man
  page suggest how to prime the database with "good" and "bad" messages.
  I was leery of the -k option since I don't want my personal mail going
  to the Razor (although I think the --local option could be used to
  suppress that). The man page didn't mention whether the database was
  updated every time spamassassin was called or not.

  Thus, the man page raises more questions than it answers and implies a
  suspect implementation.

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