[olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Adam Lassek wrote:
> My mom has an email account that gets an absolutely rediculous amount
> of spam. Her computer is an old Gateway laptop running Windows 98, so
> I'm pretty limited in what I can do to filter her mail. I have her
> using Thunderbird, but TB's spam filtering is totally inadequate. At
> best, it filtered out about 35% of it, but it has slowly degenerated
> to the point where it doesn't filter ANYTHING. Has anybody else
> experienced this sort of behavior with TB or other Bayesian filtering
> systems? I have experienced this with SpamAssassin as well, it works
> great for a while but slowly gets worse until it stops working
> altogether. I've tried using SA twice and both times this has
> happened.
> 

I'm using TB right now, and it does a pretty fair job for us.  I'd say 
about 80% or better, if not 90% or better.  You have to remember to 
train it for awhile.  I haven't set it to automatically trash the spams 
yet.  I've been thinking to do that for a couple weeks, just haven't 
bothered yet.

Tim

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