> I get about 20 bits of spam a day and much more ham than that in mailing > list and personal traffic; I can wait 10 days to collect enough spam to > train SA (NB: 251 spams since 7/15.) > > If it takes you more than a week or two to collect enough spam and ham > to train Bayes, you don't have much of a spam problem ;)
:-) I used to get about 1 spam / week, but it's been increasing a lot the last few months. Now I get about 2 spams/day. It would have taken me 8 months to train Bayes, so I guess you wouldn't say I have much of a spam problem. :) Still, I found what I got irritating enough. One time I got sick of it and decided to send 500 reply messages to a spammer telling him how much I hate spam (I masked my address btw). It was a hotmail account so I filled his inbox with the first few hundred. :-) (yes, I know it's bad to do that to people... but he started it!) In any event, regular SA was catching nearly all of the spam I was getting, but some was getting through. Now that I have Bayes trained with ~3000 emails (2/3 spam/ham ratio) I'm happy to see that nothing has gotten through. :) Then again, I've only been using Bayes for a week, so I can't say anything definitively. But I am trying to get good care of my user_prefs and I'm taking the time to train my Bayes. >OT: I prefer the definition of spam=UBE. What's UBE? I'm sure that the U stands for "Un" and the E for "Email". What's the B for? >From your explanation of UBE, I think I agree with you. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | PGP: 6643 8C8B 3522 66CB D16C D779 2FDD 7DAC 9AF7 7A88 Math PhD. UMD | http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/pgp.html A child's letter to GOD: Dear GOD, Did you really mean "do unto others as they do unto you?" Because if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother. -- Darla ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
