[Techtalk] spam filters

[Raquel]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:30:34 -0700
Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am currently using spamassasin to filter spam on our mail
> server.  Lately it has not been doing a very good job. I keep
> trying to update  it, but I always seem to be at the latest
> release. Does anyone have any  suggestions? Either an alternate
> spam filter or some secret knob to turn  to make it work better?
> ;-) I have the spam level at 5 right now, but I 
>   don't think turning it further down would help much, because
>   most of 
> the spam getting through seems to be a 2.5 or less (and a
> depressing  amount of them are at 0!). Any advice? Has anyone
> tried turning it down  as low as a 2? What sort of false positives
> do you get?
> 
> thanks,
> maria
> 
> 

Do you continue to train the bayesian filters with SPAM that gets
missed?  What rulesets do you use?

-- 
Raquel
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