Re: [tlug] giving up on email

[David Santinoli <u235@example.com>]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:32:30PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
> I think the spamassassin people have gotten tired of trying to keep up
> with the spammers, because they don't seem to be releasing anywhere
> near as often as the spammers come up with ways to avoid spamassassin.
> [...]
> 
> I think at this point we need to go to a more AI-like approach, even
> the Nigerian scammers are getting past spamassassin.

Talking about an "out-of-the-box" - i.e. untrained - SpamAssassin, the
bad guys have an obvious advantage over the good ones: they can run
their mail text through the filter and fine-tune it until it gets
classified as "clean".  That's what makes training so important.

Cheers
 David
-- 
 David Santinoli, Milano             +   <david@example.com>
 Independent Linux/Unix consultant   +   http://www.santinoli.com