Carlos, On Wednesday 24 November 2004 16:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2004-11-24 at 13:56 -0800, Linda A. W. wrote:
I know I missed the original post that started this, and I can't find it in my SuSE-Linux folder (likely because it expired/was too old). The earliest post I found had this in it:
I keep more that 5 thousand emails on the suse-linux-e folder :-p
I roll over very-high-volume lists such as SuSE-Linux-E to a date-stamped, secondary mail folder every month. In the few months I've subscribed to that list, the average message volume has from 4,000 to 4,500 messages per month.
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From my perspective, I don't like having to fish SuSE postings out of my Spam folder and make sure they end up in my "despam" folder so when I run sa-learn to teach SA what is spam/ham, it doesn't start thinking that SuSE posts are spam...SA is dumb enough as it is -- it seems to classify alot moreemail as spam than Thunderbird's own spam marker, though it might be simply a case that SA errs on side of false positives while Tbird err's on side of false negatives...
That doesn't happen here, I get no false positives at all, just a few false negatives. The Bayesian filters works as a charm.
Exactly my experience. I rely on my ISP's application of SpamAssassin, and it's amazingly good. I don't allow them to delete or even corral the putative UCE, but in fact false positives are very rare. The only odd thing is the false negatives. They seem pretty obvious, but for whatever reason don't pass the score threshold used by SpamAssassin (as configured by my ISP, of course). Lastly, one of my favorite things about KMail is the arbitrary header rewrite capability that is incorporated into its filter mechanism. Two of the most common rewrites I use are to strip SpamAssassin headers from false positives and--much more commonly--to move a thread hijacking post to the top of the thread hierarchy (by removing the "In-Reply-To" and "References" headers entirely). Naturally, both of these filters are set for manual application only and are added to the "Message" -> "Apply Filter" sub-menu.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Randall Schulz