Re: Bayesian filtering (Re: Suggentions for server side spam control)

From: Gil Freund (gilf_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Thu 01 Jan 2004 - 00:34:50 IST


Oded Arbel wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 December 2003 20:59, Gil Freund wrote:
>
>>I wonder, does bayesian filtering make sense on a domain level (i.e. the
>>same DB for all users) and not having each user teach the system his/her
>>own rules?
>
>
> Good question. I have no idea :-)
>
> I've set it up anyway, and it looks to be working OK (that is no complaints
> from users so far :-). I know its not nice to do, but I occasionally scan
> user's inboxes by grepping for known keywords to extract SPAM that they got
> and then feeds it to the dictionary. I also have some dummy accounts which
> exist for the sole purpose of attracting SPAM.

How do you feed it? I thought SA reads MBOX and Maildir formats only?
>
> All in all I think SPAM is generally the same for all the users - viagra ads
> and other suspect materials, nigerian scams and yambateva.
>
> --
> Oded
>

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