spam goes through

[John G Walker]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:33:01 +0400 Dmitry <vdb at mail.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I can't find good remedy against "bigger pe*nis" kind of spam ;) 
> 
> Bogofilter seems to be very ineffective fighting with such spam even
> after training on hundreds of sample letters with similar phrases.
> Spammicity never gets past the 0.97% for new spam letters.
> 
> Diagnostics:
> 
> $ bogoutil -p ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db .MSG_COUNT
>                                  spam    good    Fisher
> .MSG_COUNT                       3286      32  0.500000
> 
> $ bogoutil -p ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db 'pe*nis'   
>                                  spam    good    Fisher 
> (nothing here, why?)
> 
> $ bogoutil -p ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db penis
>                                  spam    good    Fisher
> penis                              12       0  0.999289
> 
> I am running bogofilter-sqlite version 1.1.5.
> 
> bogofilter.cf changed parameters:
> unicode=yes
> block_on_subnets=yes
> ham_cutoff = 0.45
> spam_cutoff= 0.97
> 

I'd set your spam cutoff a lot lower, if I were you. I have mine set
at .6.  

Bogofilter is extremely effective if you make it work for you,

-- 
 All the best,
 John