Sellam,
I've been using SpamAssassin for several months - and you can tweak it to the
place where it screens out 99% of the SPAM w/virtually no false positives. ?
There are spammers who "train" their Email on SpamAssassin - who can get
through. ?When they do, I forward their SPAMs to SpamCop - where they get
blacklisted - and at least you won't hear from that particular ISP/vendor
again. ?What this means is that it never will reach 100% - but 99% is good
enough for me (I kinda enjoy nailing the ones that get through ;-)
Lyle
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:15, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I finally implemented SpamAssassin on VCF e-mail
accounts after trialing
it with a personal account for about a month. I've gone from something
like 200+ spams a day to almost none.
My personal account has done similarly well though after a while the spam
count started creeping back up, but its still at a very manageable level.
Instead of having to wade through hundreds of spams every 2-3 days when I
would check that account, it's now maybe 10-15.
Question: has anyone been able to make SpamAssassin be "perfect" (i.e. no
spam at all)?
Anyway, the reason for this message, other than to claim (for now) victory
against spam, is to let people know that if they do have trouble
contacting me for some reason, it may be because SpamAssassin is equating
your message with spam. If so, please page me here in the mailing list
or you can send me a message via the VCF contact page:
http://www.vintage.org/contact.php
I LOVE SPAMASSASSIN!!!
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"