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

Thanks Mike.  Fortunately my spam count is pretty low right now.  Al the
solutions are currently more trouble than the delete key.  But it may
change. :(

Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tope" <mike.tope at dsl.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Blocked Sender's List or Is this the
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> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: 06 November 2003 17:54
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Blocked Sender's List or Is this the right
> listforthiskind ofquestion?
>
>
> > 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
>
>
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