[Wylug-help] Re: Spam filtering.

[Stephen Patterson]

On 17 Jun 07, Richard Ibbotson (richard.ibbotson at gmail.com) wrote:
> try 'apt-cache search spamassassin' .  spamd and spamc are also 
> helpful. 

I use bogofilter, it uses bayesian filtering (which spamassassin can
also use) to identify spam from the word patterns contained in good and
bad messages that you train it with. It runs quicker than spamassassin
and doesn't hammer the CPU as heavily.

http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering

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