[Elecraft] Please do not use Earthlink's spam blocker

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:31:05PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> At 09:55 AM 01/09/2004 +0000, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
> >I'm
> >unconvinced about bayesian filters, as the newsgroups have plenty of
> >reports from people who find they suddenly start letting through more spam
> >and dumping wanted mail, and since you can't see why the filter made the
> >decision it did, there's not a lot you can do about it.
> 
> That depends on the SPAM filter. I am using Spamassassin under Linux and so 
> far it has worked properly. The odd SPAM gets left in my inbox but it 
> hasn't yet classified any HAM as SPAM. It doesn't tell me why a message is 
> SPAM but perhaps I haven't asked it to tell me the reasons.
> 

I have been using spamassassin for quite some time and once it got
trained enough that I don't get any false positives, I set it to dump
all the spam to /dev/null.  Therefore I don't have any examples to look
at, but I recall that if it thinks a message is spam, the headers will
indicate the scores of the various tests (not that it is necessarily
understandable).  I still get the occasional spam, but reporting it to
razor and pyzor helps (and I think that process also triggers the
bayesian filters, although those files are not plaintext, so I can't
really be sure--it does affect the time/date stamp).

Bob, N7XY



> Under Windows, I am testing Spamnix and it by default does tell you the 
> reasons a message is classified as SPAM. I am using the plug-in for Eudora 
> and if a message is mis-classified, there are buttons I can click on which 
> allows me to tell Spamnix whether it should (or should not) have accepted 
> as message as HAM.
> 
> Either way, these bayesian filters still gives me substantially less 
> messages to filter manually even though I can usually tell HAM from SPAM 
> just from the visible headers without the need to open the message.
> 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)
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