Bogofiler with a specified wordlist.db

[Tom Anderson]

Christophe Journel wrote:
> don't u think that's a good idea to merge the 2 most powerfull antispam
> solution ?

Christophe, I see no advantage from running Spam Assassin in addition to 
Bogofilter.  I first purge about 70-80% of my spam using DNSBLs like 
Spamhaus (just to cut down on load), and then Bogofilter eliminates 
99.999% of the rest of it.  Out of thousands of emails per week (the 
majority of which are spam), I only receive 1-2 false negatives and 1-2 
unsures.

I feel that adding Spam Assassin to the mix would only introduce false 
positives, of which I currently recieve zero.  The reason is because 
Spam Assassin is a procedural filter, and those rules might not apply to 
everyone equally.  Bogofilter is a statistical filter, and so it only 
learns rules which apply directly to you.  Bogofilter will eventually 
learn all of the same rules as Spam Assassin, except for the ones that 
don't apply.  Therefore, adding Spam Assassin to a Bogofilter setup 
would only add invalid rules and create false positives.

You're better off just using Bogofilter.  Adding DNSBLs won't improve 
effectiveness, just efficiency.  Adding procedural filters like Spam 
Assassin will reduce both effectiveness and efficiency.

Tom