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From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] tactic
Date: Thu,  1 Apr 2004 18:00:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080838815.17780.714.camel@zevon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401154757.GA96198@ix.netcom.com>

> They're working fine for me.  The filter adapted to the garbage
> salad at the end pretty quickly, and now it routinely drops all
> those messages in the spam trap.

Yes, but ...
1) your database(s) just keep growing
2) you're fuzzying the line a lot:
   our well tuned spamassassin scores most stuff _very_ close
   to the "non-spam" score: a difference of .1/5 (2%) in the score
   means about another 20-30 spams getting through.
   So, as you "pollute" your filter, you increase the likelihood
   of false positives/negatives.

	Dave.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <QKKPXMWZAUGMQBSVGGFUZ@guanajuato.com>
2004-03-31 14:38 ` ron minnich
2004-03-31 17:02   ` Micah Stetson
2004-04-01  3:55     ` ron minnich
2004-03-31 21:05   ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-01 15:10     ` Joel Salomon
2004-04-01 14:30       ` boyd, rounin
2004-04-01 15:47         ` Jon Snader
2004-04-01 17:00           ` Dave Lukes [this message]
2004-04-01 17:24             ` Jon Snader
2004-04-01 16:08     ` Dave Lukes
2004-04-01 16:46       ` George Michaelson
2004-04-01 18:24       ` Tad Hunt
2004-04-02  0:26         ` Dave Lukes
2004-04-01 15:25 Tiit Lankots
2004-04-01 15:26 ` Joel Salomon
2004-04-01 15:32 ` Dave Lukes
2004-04-01 16:13 Tiit Lankots
2004-04-01 16:56 ` Dave Lukes
2004-04-02  9:25 plan9fans

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