[olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird

[Adam Lassek]

My mom trained TB every day,  because there were hundreds of spam
messages it didn't block.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:19:22 -0600, Tim & Alethea Larson
<thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> 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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