Re: why does reiserfs list get so much spam?

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> David Masover schrieb:
> 
> (...)
> 
>>> If You will look in the headers of messages that You get from this list
>>> You will see that there is spamassassin running on thebsh.namesys.com,
>>> it's just that it is not configured good enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can spamassassin be configured "good" enough?
>>
>> I use dspam:
>>
>> http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/
>>
>> There are some articles about why dspam has a fundamentally better
>> design than spamassassin, and why in general statistical filters beat
>> manual-rule-based ones like spamassassin.
> 
> 
> Yeah spamassassin can work extremely well.
> 
> I guess these articles are based on the quality of spamassassin which 
> checks spam from this list? :)
> 
> And it's not really true that spamassassin is a manual-rule-based filter 
> only.

Right, but the statistical/learning component of spamassassin is just 
that -- a component, to be combined with razor/pyzor, manual rules, and 
anything else they can think of.  I think dspam does a much better job 
at being a statistical filter, and that's all it does -- and that's all 
it needs to.  Some people have reported 99.997% accuracy from dspam, 
beating humans.

Anyway, the articles are about the principle of the thing.  A 
statistical filter will beat a manual one every time, because it's 
faster and better at coming up with rules, and you don't need to update 
your definitions to start filtering the new spam -- just train on two or 
three mails, and you're done.