| Art Alexion on 4 Nov 2005 21:10:31 -0000 |
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Art Clemons wrote: >>My suggestion when dealing with spam is still bayesian filtering. I set up >>spamprove on my server, and withing 2 weeks my spam dropped by 98%. The >>false positives were reduced to 1% after the first 3 weeks. It's totally >>worth it, and in spamprobe's case the CPU usage is very low. >> >> > >I've found that Thunderbird's adaptive junk mail detection is quite good > once trained. The other point is that by going to my junk directory, I >can easily see what the filters included that should not have been. >It's not perfect, but my spam load is certain well down. > > For me, Thunderbird's spam controls only catch 60%. They seem to have "adapted" to that level over a couple of weeks, and then leveled off. OTOH, spamassassin, which I can use with kmail, filters out about 95% with only 2 days use. Kmail simultaneously uses spamassassin and bayesian filters, and each piece of mail that gets through has two level indicators, one for each of the two. The spamassassin seems much more accurate, but the bayesian filters should improve with repeated use. For me, I like Thunderbird, but feel spam filtering is its weakness as its adaptive filters don't seem capable of manual tweaking, and it doesn't make it easy to add third party filters. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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