Killing spam

[Peter Hiscocks]

We're using spamassassin here in Electrical Engineering at Ryerson, and it
seems to work very well. I'm down from over 50 spams per day to less than 1
a day.

Peter

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:17:35PM -0400, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:
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> On Tuesday April 20 2004 17:58, James Knott wrote:
> > How does Spamassassin compapre with the spam filter in Mozilla?
> 
> I'm not sure if Mozilla Mail and Mozilla Thunderbird use the same spam filter, 
> but I've had bad experience with the latter's. Sometimes it works, sometimes 
> it just plain doesn't. I fought with it for a while, but gave up trying. 
> After 3 months of training with about 70 spam and 10 ham messages coming in 
> every day it still managed to get 50% of the mail filtered incorrectly.
> 
> It was too capricious for my taste.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> - -- 
> Dmitri Vassilenko
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> OpenPGP-key located at
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> OpenPGP Fingerprint: 4023 5A66 2914 300F 0A5D  E056 77B1 1071 7611 87FA
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Peter D. Hiscocks                         	   
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering    
Ryerson University,                    
350 Victoria Street,
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3, Canada

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