Has somebody subscribed paypal customer support to the SA list? This highly amusing form letter just dropped into my mailbox... (Yes, it *was* received from a paypal MTA.)
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, PayPal Customer Service 1 wrote: > Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:12:11 -0500 (CDT) > From: PayPal Customer Service 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: John D. Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: sender name same as recipient name (KMM4975266I96L0KM) :ppk1 > > Dear John D. Hardin, > > Hello my name is (auto-insert your name). I am sorry to hear about this > situation, and understand your frustration and concern regarding > (briefly repeat member's situation). > > If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us again. > > Sincerely, > Annie > PayPal Consumer Support > PayPal, an eBay Company > > > > Original Message Follows: > ------------------------ > On Wed, ## Sep ####, John Calvert wrote: > > > I have decided to restart this whole process... setting the bayes > > database back to its initial state & deleting auto-whitelist file. > > > > Is it good to use a bayes starter DB ? If so, where can I get a > > good one. > > It's not generally a good idea to use *somebody else's* data for your > starter DB - the nature of their email traffic is not likely to be > similar to yours. > > This is why it's a good idea to keep the messages you use to train > your bayes, if you're doing manual training - so that you can correct > training errors, and retrain from scratch if necessary. Of course, > that doesn't scale too well if you have large numbers of users and are > autolearning... > > If your users retrieve their email from your server using IMAP, here's > one thing you can do: set up a SpamAssassin-SPAM and SpamAssassin-HAM > mail folder in each user's mailbox. Have them move missed spams to the > SpamAssassin-SPAM folder, and *copy* false positives (SA says it's > spam when it isn't) to the SpamAssassin-HAM folder. They can (and > ideally *should*) also copy some legitimate messages to their > SpamAssassin-HAM folder so that SA can get an idea of what "ham" looks > like. > > You can then train off those folders, and retrain as needed. To manage > the training work, you can rotate those files on a schedule - e.g. on > October #, everybody's SpamAssassin-HAM becomes > SpamAssassin-HAM-######, etc. > > I have some scripting for that sort of thing here: > > http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/ > > > -- > John Hardin KA#OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic ###### pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] > key: #xB####E## -- #D#C ##F# #### F### ###C AF## D### E#E# B### #E## > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Pelley: Will you pledge not to test a nuclear weapon? > Ahmadeinejad: CIA! Secret prison in Europe! Abu Ghraib! > -- Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad clumsily dodges a question > (## minutes interview, #/##/####) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ### days until the Mars Phoenix lander arrives at Mars > -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pelley: Will you pledge not to test a nuclear weapon? Ahmadeinejad: CIA! Secret prison in Europe! Abu Ghraib! -- Mahmoud Ahmadeinejad clumsily dodges a question (60 minutes interview, 9/20/2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 238 days until the Mars Phoenix lander arrives at Mars
