Re: [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:17:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > Huh?  I just use Spamassassin myself, with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and Bayes all
> > > enabled ...
> >
> > I use exactly the same setup. But recently I've noticed that the
> > spammers are getting smarter -- I think 20% of it is slipping by the
> > filters. I'm going to need something better.
>
> do you force learn those spam that get through the cracks?  I get about 20
> or 30 messages that slip through the cracks, which I process through with
> sa-learn nightly ...

i have been doing that some -- but i still get about 200 false
negatives per day. takes too much time to run 'sa-learn' all the
time when it seems like spam #n is an awful lot like spam #n-1.

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