[tech] Spam filtering

Bernard Blackham bernard at blackham.com.au
Wed Jul 14 21:00:40 WST 2004


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 05:44:34PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> > Does UCC want to be put onto the Kaspersky anti-spam 
> > trial? It sets an X-SpamTest-Status: SPAM header if 
> > the mail is spam, and won't delete anything.
> > 
> > If the trial is successful, this will probably end 
> > up being implemented on a campus wide basis, similar 
> > to the AV stuff we currently do.
> 
> I say we may as well. Not sure whether it's worth manually setting
> mooneye's spamassassin to give +5 or something for things with that flag,
> or just let SA's bayesian learning figure it out...

I wouldn't go +5 till we've seen some results though. Not that I'm
doubting it, but it'd probably be safer starting with +1. May as
well give bayesian a hand though.

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>



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