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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 2004 03:38:40 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spam removal
Message-ID:  <20040216113840.GA93732@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040216102135.GC58487@grover.logicsquad.net>
References:  <20040216091316.98506.qmail@web9602.mail.yahoo.com> <20040216093332.GA85516@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040216102135.GC58487@grover.logicsquad.net>

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 08:51:35PM +1030, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:33:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > I recommend bogofilter for per-user filtering.  Spamassassin is also
> > highly recommended for site use.
>=20
> I'll second both.  SpamAssassin worked well for me for several years,
> but I recently changed from SA to bogofilter because SA just wasn't
> keeping up with the latest craze of random word spams.  Fortunately, I
> had a 26,000-spam corpus with which to train bogofilter, so it's
> already working quite well.  It seems to be learning the random word
> spams gradually.

I had problems with those bayes-busters for a while until I adjusted
my cutoff scores (according to the recommendation of bogotune)..it now
catches all of those with 99% accuracy too.

Kris

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