[clue-tech] Me vs. Spam and Spamassassin

[Bob Meetin]

I probably missed the beginning message here, but time to chime in. If 
I'm way off topic, please let it ride.  When I talk about SPAM and SPAM 
control I talk to:

1) SPAM that comes in via web forms
2) SPAM coming in through your regular email account

1) Do a google on "comment form spam" and you'll find lots of results; I 
even have some forms I've developed piecing together bits/pieces I've 
googled.  If interested I can point you to one on my site,

2) I use an online service, same as I implement for my clients, called 
Email Defense available from www.luxsci.com.  It is highly configurable 
through their console and the support folks are outstanding.  I think 
someone referred me to them a couple years ago (from the PHP group?).  I 
used Mailarmory from FRII.com for a while but it came with more baggage 
than you could shake a leg at and FRII nickle/dimed you to death. 

For clients I also tried setting up spam assassin and boxtrapper spam 
trap which are readily available through many webhosting services, but 
they were really nightmarish.  I lost email in testing and many many 
hours of my time - support is laissez-faire.  I use Thunderbird for 
email as well.  I don't think it's spam filter actually catches much as 
email defense is so smooth.

Chime out,
Bob


Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>> When I did, I remember thinking that without bayesian filtering I had 
>> to set the threshold pretty low to ensure that there were no false 
>> positives.
>
> I think that should be "pretty high" ... I think I kept it around 8 
> (not 5)
>
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