[olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird

[Adam Lassek]

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.