persistent spam missed by bogofilter.

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 08 September 2008 16:03, John Culleton wrote:
> I get several messages a day concerning imitation timepieces.  The
> word xxxxxxxx without dashes of course is in the subject line of
> each. I always classify them as spam manually. For some reason
> bogofilter misses them. Is there a way that I can manually put this
> word in the bogofilter criteria? I can set up my own filter in Kmail
> but that seems to negate the need for an adaptive spam filter.

I get a load of those, and bogofilter on Kmail correctly classifies them as 
spam, and sends then to my spamcheck box, where I can check them before 
sending them to the trashcan.

Where are they turning up for you? In the inbox, or the unsure box.

If you're regularly running the bogofilter training program on them, they 
should not be turning up in the inbox, or the unsure box for that matter.

Most of what turns up in my unsure box, is when the spammers reconfigure their 
spam for the "get a bigger xxxxx" stuff, and bogofilter is no longer sure if 
it's spam or not. Another training session fixes that for a while, until the 
spammers try a different approach.

Nigel.