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Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group

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  • Subject: [mg117878] Re: Off Topic: E-Mail Security in this Group
  • From: Syd Geraghty <sydgeraghty at me.com>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 02:43:58 -0500 (EST)

Steve,

Your spam filter mechanism seems extraordinarily effective. 

Please share the filter references/methodology if you can.


Cheers .... Syd

[Syd,  I forward all mail through one of my Gmail accounts first.
It was pretty good initially at figuring out what was spam, but out
of say 1000 spams, it might miss 100.   Each day I could go through
the mail on Gmail and notify it which messgages were spam (and the
few false positives were taken off the spam list).   After doing
this training for several weeks, it got better and better.   For
a variety of reasons, I prefer to use Thunderbird as my local mail
client.  Thunderbird has its own filters for mail and for spam.   I
use this next spam filter to train Thunderbird's filter.   By now,
this combination is very effective.   I also use the Thunderbird
filter system to separate the 200 or so "good" daily emails into
folders that I can deal with as needed.  In the past, I used
procmail/spamassassin filtering, but with the volume of mail I
was getting this slowed down my mail server too much so I thought,
let Google do it for me. -- Steve C, Moderator]

Syd Geraghty B.Sc, M.Sc.

sydgeraghty at mac.com

Mathematica 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011)
ReleaseID:    8.0.1.0 (2063982, 2063639)
MacOS X V 10.6.7 Snow Leopard 
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo  2GB RAM

On Apr 1, 2011, at 12:35 AM, Bill Rowe wrote:

> [I get more than 1,000 spams a day every day and have for many
> years.  One filter reduces this to 10-20 and another filter to perhaps
> 1-2 that I actually see.   These are used to "train" the
> filters further. -- Moderator]



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