Comments | streiner: the reality show that is my email inbox

streiner

the reality show that is my email inbox

Feb 08, 2007 23:34

Foreword: yeah I'm a computer geek, so sue me ( Read more... )

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sseaman February 9 2007, 14:07:29 UTC

I have everything sent to my pobox account which fowards to my gmail account so I have two spam filters working for me;) I get about 1 spam email a week this way.

results are promising streiner February 9 2007, 14:36:51 UTC

I turned the auto-learner loose on two mailboxes, one that had only spam and one that had only legitimate messages. After that, I've gotten zero spams that actually made it into my inbox. I need to look through the logs to make sure there aren't any false positives, i.e. legitimate email that's getting caught and rejected by the filters.

I'm sure a few will sneak through from time to time, but I'll add them to the filters as I get them.

not bad... streiner February 11 2007, 17:03:49 UTC

I did get some spam, but at nowhere near the rate I did with the filters totally off. I'd say between when I had the filter learn about the spam that made it through (ran that Thursday night) until now, I've gotten about 20 pieces of spam. From >200/day, that's a 90-95% improvement. As spam occasionally trickles through the filters, I'll have the Bayesian filter learn about those too, so the spam will continue to drop.