[Wylug-help] Sample spam for training filter

Richard Wade rik at rikwade.com
Wed Jun 8 22:05:11 BST 2005


> I'm playing with spambayes (http://spambayes.org) and trying to train
> it.  In the past I have deleted all spam, so I only have good mail to
> train it on.  Can I download some sample spam from somewhere
> (preferrably as an mbox file) so I can make the training more balanced?

I've got a few Gig of spam that I've collected over the years. It's in a
mixture of mbox and MailDir (I recently switched to MailDir). I can make
it available for download if you'd like it. I automatically archive
collected spam each month, so it's available in smaller chuncks if that's
better.
--
rik




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