My "monthly" word means that I've been feeling too good about myself lately, so I'm due for a slap-down on how dumb I am.
J
Chr. von Stuckrad wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:26:43AM -0500, Joe Flowers wrote:
For us, SA *seems* to score SPAM messages with lower and lower hit scores as time goes by, and the users get more and more glassy-eyed over it's ("my" if you prefer) effectiveness as time goes by too.
OH, interesting, I think I had the same effect with a GLOBAL bayes database deteriorating slowly (being slowly poisoned, I assumed).
I have two completely identical servers, one *working* as virus-, the other as spam-filter (so both can be switched to do both, if one breaks).
But only the 'actualy running spamfilter' has the 'actual/current' bayes database.
Testing the same new/undetected spam gave me slowly decreasing Values on the 'learning' and 'nearly the same(*)' values on the 'not-learning' machine! (* both hosts get my updated configs, so values changed anyway).
I simply dropped the 'rotten' bayes database and the problem went away ... I'm waiting what comes up now ... (does your subject ipmply the poison to work monthly?)
Stucki
