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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:55:23PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
&gt; After watching spamassassin slowly die (even with updates and custom
&gt; tweaks), I gave up and decided to install a new anti-spam engine.

&gt; DSPAM kicks butt!! I preloaded it with a corpus of about 1200 non-spams
&gt; (archived ALE emails and personals) and about 80 spam emails (which only
&gt; took about 3 hours to collect once I turned off spamassassin). 

&gt; My spam load is still 2/3 of my email volume. But DSPAM is quarantining
&gt; the spams. I have had only 3 spams get through and 4 mis-labeled as spam
&gt; that were not out of nearly 300 emails over the last 24 hours. Given
&gt; that the training is still happening, I'm very impressed. My wife's
&gt; stats on the spam are even better (1300+ messages, 3 incorrectly labeled
&gt; as spam, 4 spams delivered).

&gt; As discussions earlier were about spam solutions that were a bit less
&gt; extreme than mutilation and murder, I wanted to pass along a solution
&gt; that seems to fit the earlier criteria.

&gt; Oh, yeah. It's easy to use for non-geeks. If a spam gets through,
&gt; forward it to spam-username at doamin. Check a web page occasionally to
&gt; look for false-positives and mark those as not spam and it reprocesses
&gt; them and sends them on. The speed could be improved by using mysql
&gt; instead of bdb. But my needs here are only for 4 users.
&gt; -- 
&gt; James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
&gt; CEO &amp; Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
&gt; Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
&gt; 770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.localnetsolutions.com";>http://www.localnetsolutions.com</a>

&gt; GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
&gt; &lt;jkinney at localnetsolutions.com&gt;
&gt; Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7


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