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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:04:12
Message-Id: 78867642-6CAA-4B36-8001-98182CF693CF@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... by Ryan Viljoen
1 On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:15, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
2 >
3 > What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected
4 > if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the
5 > spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam.
6
7 I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know you get very high hit rates
8 with this, but it doesn't make any allowances for false positives -
9 if I make a list of "banned words" like this, one of them is _sure_
10 to turn up one day.
11
12 I don't plan to dump the detected spam to /dev/null, but to a
13 separate folder (SpamAssassin is already doing this nicely with the %
14 age it detects) but my suspicion is that users will probably never
15 check that Junk folder once they find it rarely contains anything of
16 interest.
17
18 Stroller.
19
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... Ryan Viljoen <ravilj@×××××.com>