How to deal with extremely high spam levels

[Chris Fortune]

Hi Bob,

I ran into the same trouble.  At one time I even took to __collecting outgoing email and feeding it to bogofilter automatically___
;-)

The answer is to collect good email from people's PC's, your friends and family will let you do it.  Copy everything in their Sent
box (under 35kb in size, attachments are useless to you!) to a zip file and upload it to your server.  (Make sure they aren't
sending spam themselves.)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Vincent" <bogofilter at bobvincent.org>
To: <bogofilter at bogofilter.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: How to deal with extremely high spam levels


> Bogofilter is apparently designed for the situation where the number
> of spams per day roughly equals the number of non-spams per day.
>
> In my situation, the ratio exceeds 100:1.  In the two weeks I've been
> re-training bogofilter, I've collected:
>
>   Correctly filtered Ham: 101
>   Unsures registered as Ham: 26
>   Correctly filtered Spam: 1067
>   Unsures registered as Spam: 14177
>
> Part of the reason for my unusually high spam-load is that I'm
> receiving catch-all emails for several domains.  Part of the reason is
> that my email address is listed in several places on the internet.
>
> I am unwilling to change email addresses or remove my catch-all
> accounts.  I would rather just filter the crap out at the server.
>
> However, at this rate, it will take nearly a year to collect enough
> non-spam to run bogotune.  I'm not willing to wait that long.
>
> If Bogofilter is inadequate to this situation, are there any
> recommendations for how to properly deal with it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Bob Vincent
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