Re: [hosers-announce] spam filtering

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Jeff Schroeder:
> At 03:27 PM 1/25/2003, Josh wrote:
> 
> >Joel Uckelman sez:
> > >Anyone who is using SpamAssassin for mail filtering please let me know.
> > >I've been testing bogofilter and found that it works significantly better
> > >than SpamAssassin (fewer false positives), and so I'm considering replacin
> g
> > >SpamAssassin. Thanks.
> >
> >I haven't been but if it encourages you to replace spamassassin, then I
> >can say that I've been getting far more spam in the last 6 months than
> >I ever have, and I'm actually interested in filtering it now (before
> >I didn't consider it so much work to just delete). If you're going to
> >switch software, though, I'll wait and only figure out how to use one
> >piece of it.
> 
> I don't get much spam on this account since I don't give this address out 
> online or to corporations (that's the beauty of hotmail and 
> mailandnews.com).  Have you looked into configuring SpamAssassin to be 
> similar to bogofilter?  There might be a simple setting change that would 
> do it for you.

I've looked into this quite a bit, since I'm increasingly dissatsified with SA.
SA is rule-based, while bogofilter is statistical.

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