[sclug] Mozilla Mail junk filter not as clever as I expected

[Neil Haughton]

Does anyone else have good experience with Mozilla Mail's Bayesian junk 
filtering? I'm disappointed with my experiences so far.

I get about a dozen spams each day offering to enlarge my penis or sell 
me Diazepan.  Always from a different email address, but obviously the 
same source. Most of them are detected and filtered but lately MM has 
suddenly started giving false negatives and letting through emails with 
the 'p' word in the subject line, not to mention several related 
innuendo's sprinkled through the body.

The point is that there is an obvious and consistent theme to the 
content that MM is failing to spot. I suppose that it must have sampled 
about 500-600 so far, had automatically them transferred to my  trash 
folder and subsequently deleted. Those that are let though I mark as 
Junk and delete them by hand.

Is anyone else having this disappointing result, or am I expecting too 
much too soon?

I notice that M$ is including something similar in Outlook 2003, or so 
they say.

Neil Haughton