[olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird

[Jacobs, Robert A.]

If she is a Cox.net user, has she enabled the Spam Filter that
Cox provides via their webmail interface?  

That may help - I helped a co-worker enable it for his wife's 
account and it dropped her spam counts from an average of 150 
spams per day to about 5 per day.

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
Adam Lassek
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:50 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird


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.
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