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> > What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected |
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> > if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the |
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> > spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam. |
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> I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know you get very high hit rates |
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> with this, but it doesn't make any allowances for false positives - |
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> if I make a list of "banned words" like this, one of them is _sure_ |
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> to turn up one day. |
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Yeah I have this enabled in a school environment and the majority of |
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the words I have in the list either way are not suitable for a school |
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environment. |
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> I don't plan to dump the detected spam to /dev/null, but to a |
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> separate folder (SpamAssassin is already doing this nicely with the % |
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> age it detects) but my suspicion is that users will probably never |
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> check that Junk folder once they find it rarely contains anything of |
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> interest. |
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Again some kids dont check their mail and dont bother to maintain |
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their inbox so putting the spam in a seperate folder would just allow |
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it to accumulate. |
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Ryan Viljoen Bsc(Eng) (Electrical) |
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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." |
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- Mark Twain |
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