[Thinkpad] OT getting rid of spam ...

> From: "Bryan Daum" <bryandaum@comcast.net>
> Subject: [Thinkpad] OT spam question

> I am plagued with the new spam of the misspelled words and phrases...and
> sender's names etc. How does one rid themself of these ?

i've heard several reports (from people that i consider knowledgeable)
that the bayesian spam filters are relatively effective at countering that
nonsense. traditional keyword-based filters fail miserably.

to be honest i haven't trained my copy of spamassassin to use its bayesian
features at all - the 'standard stuff' [blocking certain ISPs, topics,
phony sender addresses, et cetera] has historically been enough to get rid
of almost all of the most bothersome spam.

IIRC Mozilla's bayesian filtering is pretty well supported, nowadays. and
pretty transparent to users.

elijah
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Received on Thu Mar 18 09:42:32 2004