Hello Mike,. MK> For myself...I will make it so a single line of "PEN?S MK> ENLARGEMENT" is enough to trigger as spam.
The value of SA is that it can be customized for individual user needs, and that it is easy to change scoring, as well as to write your own rules. I also have some words and phrases that I feel should always be treated as spam. I personally have chosen to use SA in conjunction with procmail, and I have written procmail recipes which automatically delete or divert such emails even before SA is invoked; my logic is simply that if a single test is going to be determinative, there is no need to waste server resources running a series of tests to score the email. (I'm managing a very busy server so I have to be very aware of memory load issues). I think that as you use Spamassassin you will get a better sense of what it can do, and how best to adjust it to your needs. For example, if phrases like "Amazing sex" or "Climatique" appear in the subject line of any email, the email gets deleted without ever being scored. (I also have procmail send a copy to a file that is fed daily to sa-learn, so I don't lose the benefit of having these spams included in the database). I realize it is frustrating at first to have to do so much fine tuning, but it really does pay off in the end. To me, the value of SA is not that it can catch bad words and phrases that I already have encountered -- it is easy for me to write simple filters for that -- but that the combination of weighting and use of Bayes filtering is able to catch most new variations as they come through. -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
