[olug] Bayesian spam filtering and Thunderbird

[Adam Lassek]

When I used Cox's filter on my account it never caught more than 50%,
so I quit using it. I've turned it on for her account, and I'll see
what kind of difference that makes. What I really want to know,
though, is why Thunderbird's filter suddenly stopped working.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:19:20 -0600, Adam Lassek <adam.lassek at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I used Cox's filter on my account it never caught more than 50%,
> so I quit using it. I've turned it on for her account, and I'll see
> what kind of difference that makes. What I really want to know,
> though, is why Thunderbird's filter suddenly stopped working.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:06:20 -0600, Jacobs, Robert A. <ra.jacobs at ngc.com> wrote:
> > 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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