[thelist] Why Does SpamAssassin Hate America? (Or at least just me?)
JS Bracher
JSB at DifferentPaths.net
Thu Apr 3 16:31:39 CDT 2008
I concede that you know more about this than I do.
That said, while mostly spam filters seem to work, I have an ongoing
problem with a friend who can't get email from some others (including
me) because the people who "protect" his server are more concerned with
reducing email load than enabling communication.
I also hear about troubles with black lists, and see problems with
people not configuring white and black lists effectively.
And spam continues. And continues to morph.
So, in a world where even some techies are fed up, how do you
communicate effective means of blocking spam? What is the difference
between statistically based filtering vs. heuristics? And how do I do
the later and avoid the former?
More importantly, how do I pass this along to others in a way that it
rises above the noise of everything else we should be doing?
Martin Burns wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2008, at 20:40, JS Bracher wrote:
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>> Ugh. I feel your pain. I get spam, but it's faster just to delete it
>> rather than set up parameters, then keep changing them as the spam
>> morphs.
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> Correction: it's quicker and easier to implement statistically based
> spam filtering than try to keep up with heuristics. Let the computers
> do the figuring out of new rules - they're really good at it once you
> start classifying.
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> Cheers
> Martin
> (trying to remember the last false negative he had)
> --
> > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter
> > http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/
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