Re: Spam filter reviews?
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:01:24AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> I've been using spamassassin for some time, and I actually send
> anything with a score of 10 or higher to /dev/null so there is less
> crap to go through when looking for misclassified mail. If's going to
> /dev/null, I think it can safely go into the Bayes db ;-).
A far better option is to save it to someplace like ~/Mail/zero, and
forward spam top your spamcop.net account for reporting. This is
free, and helps get ISP attention to the problem. It's slightly more
effort, but makes you an extremely "hostile customer" as marketroids
put it[1]. This will also help reduce spam for everyone if the ISP is
responsive to such issues.
http://www.spamcop.net/ has details.
Bonus points is you get to have fun reporting, too. One particularly
annoying spammer from China that finally got the better of me saw my
worst dished out: I forwarded thier spam to China's internet authority
with a claim that the revenue would fund Chinese resistance. I got a
thank you (in Engrish, which is more than I expected!) and I've never
recieved anything from that spammer again. One can only hope that
spammer was disposed of in the most gruesome method they could think
of. I think I also win the LART war with that.
> I'd prefer to have it run the Bayes filter for anything over 5 and
> reclassify the odd message that is incorrectly classified as spam
> (only about 1 every few thousand for me, although I suspect that
> bogofilter and spamprobe will have even fewer false positives which
> will make them tempting for me as it will be nice to not even have to
> bother to look for false positives).
Spamassassin with it's Bayesian filtering is working out super-nice
for me.
[1] I'm willing to say hostile victim, since we both know you don't
have any intention of being thier customer and they cost you
resources.
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