On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: > >>Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>>Huh? I just use Spamassassin myself, with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and Bayes all > >>>enabled ... > >> > >>I use exactly the same setup. But recently I've noticed that the > >>spammers are getting smarter -- I think 20% of it is slipping by the > >>filters. I'm going to need something better. > > > > do you force learn those spam that get through the cracks? I get about 20 > > or 30 messages that slip through the cracks, which I process through with > > sa-learn nightly ... > > Sorry to drag this OT thread on even longer, but it seems to be a topic > many are interested in ;-) > > I wanted to report back that after just 2 days of forced (supervised) > learning, the bayesian filter is now nailing about 99% of all spam. > *Many, many, thanks* for the suggestion. > > But I wonder why the autolearn feature is so conservative? At this point > I'm getting lots of stuff like this: > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.8 required=2.5 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_FONT_BIG, > HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 > X-Spam-Report: > * 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message > * 0.3 HTML_FONT_BIG BODY: HTML has a big font > * 5.4 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% > * [score: 1.0000] > > Notice that, even though I get a hit on BAYES_99, I still get > autolearn=no. Ah well, I guess I should be asking that question of the > SpamAssassin guys. Also notice that this sucker would have gotten > through with a score of only 0.4 had it not been for the bayesian filter. BAYES_99 means that its already been found in the bayes filter, so why would it once more autolearn it? :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
