On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:38:52PM -0700, Kerry Nice wrote:
| I saw in the Lockergnome newsletter I received today, Spamassassin was
| slammed big time. I do see his point though. Does SA really do that
| great of a job with newsletters and journals?
...
| Is this just the journals I read or does this seem like a really big
| problem to others? I know these can be whitelisted (and in my case,
| procmail takes care of them), but if an ISP, for example, is going to
| use SA, lots of people are going to get legitmate mail filtered and will
| have to go hunting for it in their caught mail folder.
|
| I think it does a great job with personal emails, you know, letters to
| mom and friends, but mailing lists seem to contain so many of the spammy
| sorts of things, they really don't score well.
It is related to what sort of mail you read. I run all the mailling
lists I subscribe to through SA and only get a handful of false
positives. Of course, lists like debian-user are highly technical and
unmoderated; the real stuff doesn't look like spam and the rest really
is (which is why I use SA in the first place).
It is well-known that the tests and scores are based on what mail the
people creating the distribution see. Some stuff like "making money"
is clearly a bad test for a business person who will often be
discussing making money with people. A proposed solution is to come
up with categorization so that some tests can be opt-(in|out) for
various users based on what type of mail they receive legitimately.
Just for elightenment, take a look at the newsletters again. Do they
sound at all similar to spam messages you've seen? SA is only a text
processor, not an actual human, so it can only do so much. There are
some legitimate mails that are so similar to spam mails that it is
nearly impossible to automatically differentiate.
| If anybody wants to look at the emails, let me know and I'll send the
| file of emails that failed the test along.
Craig may want to add some of those to the corpus to see how it
affects the generation of scores. Check with him.
-D
--
All a man's ways seem innocent to him,
but motives are weighed by the Lord.
Proverbs 16:2
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