Killing spam

Scott Allen scotta-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Apr 21 11:10:26 UTC 2004


On Tue Apr 20,2004 10:09:43 AM Lance F. Squire wrote:
> What's the best/easy spam filter out there right now.
> 
> I've heard of Spam Assassin. Is that the one to go with?

I've been using "Quick Spam Filter" (QSF) as a client side filter for 
several months now.

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/qsf.shtml

It's a statistical analysis type filter using the Bayesian technique, 
similar to Bogofilter, but a little simpler and easier to set up. I run 
it from procmail which is called from the Balsa mail reader that I use.

Currently it seems to catch about 80% to 90% of the spam I get (about 1 
or 2 out of about 15 per day get through). I've only had a handfull of 
false positives.


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