Re: [NF] Testing Spam Blocker

Author: Garrett Fitzgerald

Posted: 2004-10-28 at 17:55:44

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:42:23 -0400, Bill Arnold <bill@wjarnold.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, no. I've been using Spambeyes for a while now, and it's

> obvious the spammers are onto it, because they include title lines and

> wording that closely mimic anything a friend would say. Therefore, spambeyes

> filtering is causing more and more friendly mail to get thrown into the spam

> bucket, which means we have to go through the spam bucket with a close eye,

> which gets us back to step 1.

Well, I'm using SpamAssassin on my Nyx account, with Bayesian turned

on, and it's rare that anything gets marked as spam that I actually

want.

One notable exception, though: Camwyn's beta fiction never gets

through to me. It gets chucked straight into the bit bucket, without

even giving me a chance to look at it first.

You are training SpamBayes that the ham messages are non-spam, right?

©2004 Garrett Fitzgerald