Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?
Date
Msg-id 20040421004710.V32445@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?  (Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>)
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Will Trillich wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:17:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote:
> >
> > > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > > Huh?  I just use Spamassassin myself, with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and Bayes all
> > > > enabled ...
> > >
> > > I use exactly the same setup. But recently I've noticed that the
> > > spammers are getting smarter -- I think 20% of it is slipping by the
> > > filters. I'm going to need something better.
> >
> > do you force learn those spam that get through the cracks?  I get about 20
> > or 30 messages that slip through the cracks, which I process through with
> > sa-learn nightly ...
>
> i have been doing that some -- but i still get about 200 false
> negatives per day. takes too much time to run 'sa-learn' all the
> time when it seems like spam #n is an awful lot like spam #n-1.

I'm down to ~20 false positives right now ... usually spent my last half
hour in front of the tv at night sorting them out and filtering them
through bayes ...

My spam filters right now are picking up between 2000->3000 messages per
day which aren't getting into my main folders ...


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