[krjw at optonline.net: Re: Consensus on span filters?]

[Greg Louis]

Nice words about bogofilter are showing up on the mutt list:

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Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:15:26 -0500
From: "Keith R. John Warno" <krjw at optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Consensus on span filters?
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* Adam Mercer <r.a.mercer at blueyonder.co.uk> [29/03/2003 0819EST]:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:22:37PM +0000, Jim Ford wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What's the consensus on the 'best' spam filter? I'm currently using
> > Spamassassin, which appears to work well, but maybe there are better out
> > there.
> 
> I use bogofilter, see bogofilter.sf.net. The only downside is that it
> needs to be trained first, but once thats done a very large proportion
> of my spam gets tagged with very few false positives.

I think Bayesian filters are the best way to go.  I started using
bogofilter, too, just last week and thus far it has been 100% accurate;
no spam has slipped by and no false positives.  Then again I had quite a
lot of good and bad mail to train it with.

There is a plethora of good anti-spam reading at
http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html

krjw.
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Keith R. John Warno                  [k r j w  at  optonline dot net]
"I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest
or feather my friends' nests."
       -- George "Dubuhyuh" Bush, in the Houston Chronicle

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