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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:16:54
Message-Id: 2C724FAB-C80C-424E-B873-4F63302F2059@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy... by Stroller
1 On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Stroller wrote:
2
3 >
4 > On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:15, Ryan Viljoen wrote:
5 >>
6 >> What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that
7 >> detected
8 >> if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the
9 >> spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam.
10 >
11 This is exactly what the navy did while my wife was in it.
12 Unfortunately, my wife is a pediatrician, and so has quite a bit of
13 legitimate email with many of those words in it. Be careful of your
14 userbase demographics when setting up things like this.
15 > I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know you get very high hit
16 > rates with this, but it doesn't make any allowances for false
17 > positives - if I make a list of "banned words" like this, one of
18 > them is _sure_ to turn up one day.
19 >
20 > I don't plan to dump the detected spam to /dev/null, but to a
21 > separate folder (SpamAssassin is already doing this nicely with the
22 > %age it detects) but my suspicion is that users will probably never
23 > check that Junk folder once they find it rarely contains anything
24 > of interest.
25 >
26 > Stroller.
27 >
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