[SC-Help] Re: Spammers getting smarter?

[Mike Easter]

Geoff Lane wrote:
> FWIW, I get at least ten Spampal false positives a week. Over half of
> those are from mailing lists to which I subscribe. Most of the
> remainder fall foul of the Bayesian plugin. I've even had mail from
> family trapped by Spampal!

Eek!  I'm seeing none over the 'life' of my SP usage and you are seeing
10 a week.

Something is wrong with your SP configuration then.  The problem with
being configured so that you have some good mail and spam all mixed up
together with a SP tag is that you have defeated the purpose of your
filter because you are having to thoroughly examine everything which has
the SP tag.  That's not good at all.  You haven't completely defeated
its purpose because you still have the X-lines to look at when you start
your evaluation, but among other things you should have whitelisted all
of your mailing lists and friends a long time ago.

It is hard for two different mail profiles people to talk to each other
about how things should be done.  I am able to configure a particular
way because I get virtually *NO* unknown wanted mail.  If I were having
to configure filters for someone else, I would have to take a good look
at a big pile of their spam and wanted mail.  My configuration strategy
for someone else might be significantly different from my own.

That would also affect reporting.


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin