[Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:12:32PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:36:23PM +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> > I'm using bogofilter, which seems to be working marvellously. It's
> > catching 87% of all spam on my main account and 99% on a less-used one
> > - no false positives on either. I should be able to tighten up the
> > criteria and get a better result on my main account as soon as I have
> > time to think about things,
> 
> Thanks.  I'm hearing a lot of positive stuff about bogofilter.

Bogofilter has very low false positives - but at the cost of letting
through more spam than other filters. I'm currently implementing the
scheme desribed at http://acme.com/mail_filtering/bayesian_frameset.html
which sets up procmail to run  QSF, BMF and BogoFilter on every mail
and mark as spam if all 3 agree. Also auto-training the filters if all
3 give the 100% spam rating, which helps bogofilter keep the false
negatives lower than it would on its own. After a little training its 
working very well - certainly much better than spamassassin and at a 
fraction the CPU overhead.

Regards,
Dan.
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