[dba-Tech] Blocked Sender's List or Is this the right listforthiskind ofquestion?

Rocky
Harking back to your earlier thread, I also use OE, and on I think it was
John C's recommendation I put in Spam Assassin in the form of SAproxy, and
for weeks it was just right without any learning mode for it or me.

Then a few little nasties started to get through. I've still not turned on
the software's learning mode, but I have started writing my own rules -
they're just regular expressions in Perl granted a score - and it seems to
be back to near 100% touch wood.

The real problem with the learning ones is that you need literally thousands
of good and bad messages for them to learn from. If you've only got a little
disk, or only getting a handful of spam each day, it's not the right answer.
Plus I haven't sussed how to point SAproxy at an OE folder to learn from -
SA itself is not really a Windows product.

Meanwhile I believe SAproxy is becoming a paid-for product but I'll happily
send along the installer I got for free in July (2.4Mb).

Regards
Mike Tope
London

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From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
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Sent: 06 November 2003 17:54
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Blocked Sender's List or Is this the right
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> Rocky,
>
> I used that for awhile.  They play by the subscription model, i.e. want $x
> per month.  You are supposed to report spam back to them using a toolbar.
> What is spam to you may not be spam to the next guy (AccessD list email?
It
> was reported as spam by someone!).  It worked but in the end it was no
less
> of a hassle than a good Bayesian filter that I train to MY spam and then
> just do a mass delete once per day.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com