This is just a message about myself and my spam problem to help you relate to the rules I'm going to send in the next few messages. If you only want to see technical discussion, skip this.
I get a LOT of spam. You can just look at my email address and guess why. Even though I was careful for years not to use it on usenet, etc, no one else was careful. It has been entered in thousands of web forms, used to post thousands of times to usenet and online message forums (mostly not by me). Oh, and `ben' means `me' in turkish. And ben.com.cn is the Beijing Electronic News. One idiot is using my email address as his return address to inquire about turtle purchases which he would like to ship to Hong Kong. I managed to get his real address and he accused me of being rude to ask him to stop. I still get email like "sorry, we can't ship turtles to Hong Kong" every day. As you might imagine I'm really sensitive to the double-opt-in issue, since lots of the junk I get is the result of SOMEONE "opting me in". Some of my rules might be too strict if you don't have that problem. For example, I loathe "newsletters". I filter several hundred messages a day via various IP filters (not all of those messages are to me, but a lot of them are) which cuts down the amount of spam that is delivered to me to about 85 messages/day. I used junkfilter for a long time. It's similar to spamassassin in that it uses regexp-based rules which are as general as possible. The main difference is that any match is absolute, so you can't express a rule that says something MIGHT be spam. That's why I switched. Since I switched I have been tweaking my user_prefs based on running it over all of my saved (wanted) mail and over spam I had saved. I've been looking at every uncought message and adding rules or tweaking scores as necessary to make sure I don't see them again. I try really hard to choose rules which will match not only that exact spam but other spam I might get in the future. I'll follow this up with some threads about new rules so the discussion is easier to follow. -- Ben Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ben.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
