Bob Stia wrote:
> The spammers use all kinds of words and phrases. Is bogofilter confused by the
> amount of info in it's spam directory and applying it to everything? Do I
> have to resort to listing all of my several hundred email addresses in the
> filters to be passed as ham?
>
> Would appreciate your thoughts, experiences, advice, whatever, in your use of
> bogofilter.
>
I gave up on bogofilter a while ago. It became monstrously huge, and
horribly tainted by "anti-bayesian" spam mumbo jumbo.
Tens of thousands of emails a day to a domain that has been on the net
since '94. I'm on every spamming list possible.
Today I use a custom Mailscanner + SpamAssassin + SARE rules + custom
rules + all of the possible SpamAssassin plugins (pyzor, razor2, dcc,
etc etc), and an auto-training bayesian database that auto-expires
anything older than a week.
Even that doesn't catch _everything_. For the bulk of the remainder, I
use Thunderbird's spam filtering. A few things sneak through, but it is
not bad at all.
Now and again, I get the urge to use CRM114 or dspam in there as well.
Eventually that will happen.
Bogofilter? Sure, you can use that as one tier of anti-spam, I suppose.
But don't rely on only Bogofilter, and learn to retrain Bogofilter
periodically to prune tainted weightings.
- Ian
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