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substitute

your future, yard donkey

Feb 25, 2007 22:05

I haven't had time or energy to blodge much. Haven't been keeping up on other people, either ( Read more... )

spam, me, meta, whining, lj, work

Comments 9

gcrumb February 26 2007, 06:32:06 UTC

28 out of 5!

W000T!

(I wonder if spammers chest-butt?)

SpamAssassin jmason February 26 2007, 10:32:01 UTC

good to see our code is proving useful, at least ;)

Re: SpamAssassin substitute February 26 2007, 17:23:09 UTC

It really is. Thank you very, very much.

Also, I love that icon.

Re: SpamAssassin jmason February 26 2007, 17:48:42 UTC

you're welcome!

re the user pic: it's great, isn't it. All credit to Kubrick, of course... it's his shot, after all ;)

thefalsegods February 26 2007, 12:03:43 UTC

Why not try out a Bayesian filter like Popfile?

Once you've fed a Bayesian 1000 or so spam emails (so, like, a week's worth), it classifies spam with a better than 99.9% success rate.

I swear by it. It's not 100% perfect, but it works way better than... erm... certain spam filters installed by email providers.

substitute February 26 2007, 17:24:38 UTC

This has a Bayesian filter built in to it, and it's pretty good. Some of the crazy image-only spams outwit those filters pretty badly, so I was glad to find FuzzyOCR at mendel's suggestion.

klikitak February 26 2007, 17:03:38 UTC

I'd like to see you this weekend. In other news, does that text up there mean something, like the formula for Air Jordans or something?

dandydand February 26 2007, 18:01:30 UTC

If you're using the Barracuda spam filtering system and you're tired of getting spammed, I recommend *not* clicking the "Report as Spam" button. I've been getting a lot less spam ever since I stopped, but it's not perfect.

substitute February 26 2007, 20:55:03 UTC

I use a program called SpamAssassin, which is why you see me in this thread thanking jmason and his associates for writing it. More info is at http://spamassassin.apache.org/

It's great, especially if like me you have to run several mail servers and you don't want your users to get spammed.