[CLUE-Tech] Spam filters.

[Dave Hahn]

I echo what Dan says.  Being the 'end point' for bounced e-mail that hits
our servers, I'd get upwards of 200 a day.  Using SpamAssassin I've reduced
this to about 1 or 2 a day.  The integration of the SpamAssassin engine with
Vipul's Razor makes for a *very* effective tool.

I would like to see what Dale has put together.

-d

-----Original Message-----
From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Dan Harris
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:09 PM
To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Spam filters.


I actually prefer the keyword approach.  Since I switched to SpamAssassin, I
have received ZERO spam in my inbox.  This is a reduction from over 30 a
DAY..

The problem with the logfile analyzing types is that they never caught any
spam because every message was from a different host.

-Dan

Randy Arabie said:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, David Anselmi wrote:
>
>> This article
>>
>> http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.22.html#subj15
>>
>> references a spam tool based on statistics rather than keyword filters
>> and block lists.  Might be interesting to those running spam filters.
>
> That is interesting.  I'm going to look into this more.  I read the "Plan
> for Spam" doc recommended by ESR, which is his basis for the development
of
> bogofilter.
>
> A statistical based approach should be better than "scores" based on key
> words.  The "Plan for Spam" went as far as suggesting each user build
their
> own baseline with a collection of their own non-spam email.
>
> However, I can't tell how far ESR's bogofilter goes, as the REAME and
manual
> are pretty light.  Guess I'll have to install and play.
> --
> Allons Rouler!
>
> Randy
>
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-Dan


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