RE: Spam filter reviews?
I have been using BMF ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ ) for about 6
months with procmail on woody, utterly impressed.
The developer answers email on the mailing list very quickly and as far as I
can tell noone has found any bug since I have been using it.
.deb supported.
I can't see how rule based systems can keep up with the spammers in the long
term so I did not even bother looking at them.
I have seen the spammers change their techniques several times over the last
few months, they seem to be misspelling words more these days, I suspect
that is to avoid rule hits.
bmf catches them as so many of the other words are statistically associated
with spam, after which the new spell1ngs gradually work there way in to the
bad word corpus.
In fact I would say that the actual spam messages are getting smaller and
smaller, perhaps that is a response to the bayesian approach. Less words in
the message, but more words mispe1t.
I do occasionally have to reclassify a mail, but I just move it to another
folder and a cron job runs each day.
It is still mildly annoying to have to download the spam in the first place
though.
I got some sms spam the other day. :(
They also put ads before movies on video and cinemas.
Matt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Wohler [mailto:wohler@newt.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2003 9:41 AM
> To: Andrew Pritchard
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Spam filter reviews?
>
>
> "Andrew Pritchard" <andrew@teppic.co.uk> writes:
>
> >> Anyone know of any spam filter reviews?
> >>
> >> I went from junkfilter to spamfilter and I'm currently using
> >> spamassassin. But for some reason, I've gone from 1 or 2
> messages in
> >> my +inbox to day to dozens. Are there other filters that are more
> >> state of the art? Can anyone compare spamassassin with spamprobe?
> >
> > I installed SpamAssassin (testing) last week and went away for the
> > weekend. I usually get 20-30 spams over the weekend in my Inbox. I
> > came home from an extended weekend away - not one spam in my Inbox.
>
> You only get ~10 spams/day? I get hundreds. Serves me right for
> maintaining an FAQ and other valuable Internet resources.
>
> I just read http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and am
> convinced that
> filters like spamassassin won't keep up and that Baysian filters are
> the way to go.
>
> One other filter I read about is ESR's bogofilter, whose Debian
> description appeals to me more than Debian's spamprobe description.
>
> I'll probably end up trying both, but would still appreciate hearing
> others' experiences.
>
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