Mailman 3 September 2005 - spambayes-dev

2 Types of Spam
by Mike and Lynn Horrocks Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

One feature that seems to be missing from Spambayes - and other spam checkers is the ability to distinguish & then sort unwanted spam from wanted spam. Unwanted being the stuff I know I never want to look at eg Viagra adverts, Cheap USA mortgage offers, Nigerian business opportunities etc etc. Wanted spam is the stuff I do check from time to time eg Lastminute.com offers, Misco catalogues etc. Any chance of offering such a facility. It would seem that you have all the basic tools to make it happen. Mike Phone (Home): 01670 715719 Phone (Mobile): 0789 115 3817 E-Mail: mike(a)horrocky.com

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Updating SpamBeyes
by Dennis Constan Sept. 29, 2005

Sept. 29, 2005

I want to download the latest version. I receive a list of "mirrors" to choose from. What does this mean? When I do download a version (US), a pop up reveals there is no digital signature. I am not sure what I should do at this point. Do I need to delete the previous version and install the latest version? Also, when I log onto my PC in the morning, the spam does not automatically move the emails to the appropriate folder automatically. I have to perform this activity manually. Any suggestions? Dennis Constan Sales Manager 856-727-0777 http://www.momsys.com/

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Worth Three Times the Cost Pharrmacfy
by Cedric Bedwell Sept. 26, 2005

Sept. 26, 2005

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E-Mail ID #319042 PayPal Security Notification of Limited Account Access [24 Sep 2005 15:36:12 +0400]
by service＠ paypal.com Sept. 26, 2005

Sept. 26, 2005

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Re: [spambayes-dev] Suggestion for next Sb version
by Tony Meyer Sept. 8, 2005

Sept. 8, 2005

> You cant do it in rules because you would have conflicting rules > about moving mail and forwarding at the same time. Could you put > an option in to automatically forward spam to another address? The best place for feature requests is on sourceforge: <http://sf.net/projects/spambayes> (requests can easily get lost on the lists, but the tracker stays there until someone deals with it). If you are willing to do this in a batch mode then it would be easy enough to create a rule that forwarded all messages, then you could periodically run this on the spam folder. If Outlook let you attach rules to folders, then it could do this automatically, but AFAICT you can only attach rules to public folders, IMAP inboxes, and the place you've chosen to dump all POP3 mail (with Outlook 2002, anyway). =Tony.Meyer

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Suggestion for next Sb version
by Andrew Callaghan Sept. 8, 2005

Sept. 8, 2005

Hi Guys , great product. Cleans out all the spam my ISP doesn't catch in their filters. Which leads me to my suggestion. My ISP , xtra.co.nz has brightmail filtering enabled. You can forward spam to them which is added to the brightmail system. Unfortunatly I cant find a way to automate this in outlook2003. You cant do it in rules because you would have conflicting rules about moving mail and forwarding at the same time. Could you put an option in to automatically forward spam to another address? Regards Andy Callaghan

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Experience with Word Pairs
by Tyson Whitehead Sept. 1, 2005

Sept. 1, 2005

A while back I noticed that the sentence structure in the random text spam (with picture advertising) is frequently bad. I figured word pair statistics might pickup on this, so I enabled it (I get alot of this type of spam). I seem to recall reading somewhere in the documentation that you guys wanted feedback from people trying out the classification of word pairs instead of just words. I am now getting about 1/2 the amount of spam that I got without the word pairs. That is, about 20-30 spam messages a week that are not classified as spam (either ham or unkown) compared to about 50-60. All together, spam bayes cleans out about 300 spam messages a week from my box. Nice piece of software guys! My email had pretty much become unusable before I installed it. Thanks again! -T PS: On the subject of spam, I believe it would be a good idea to create a system that automaticaly replied to (and visits any links in) detected (and flagged) spam. This would greatly decrease the economic feasability of spam. Valid responses would be buried in piles of return spam. Websites would be immediately DOSed. The tricky bit would be making sure the system could not be manipulated to take out legitimate sites. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe(a)uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

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[Fwd: RE: SpamBayes wins PCW Editors Choice Award for anti-spam software.]
by Steve Holden Aug. 31, 2005

Aug. 31, 2005

Tony Meyer <t-meyer(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote: > >> While it may not adequately credit the implementation >> language, > > Was this "it" the PCW article or SpamBayes? If the latter, please let > spambayes-dev(a)python.org know how you think Python should be more > appropriately credited; we are certainly trying to do this. > > (Python is mentioned all over the website, the "Python Powered" logo is > integrated into what passes for a SpamBayes logo, and all donations to the > project go to the PSF). > > With a little more context: > While it may not adequately credit the implementation language, a Google > search for "sourceforge spambayes" results in the first hit being linked > as """SpamBayes: Bayesian anti-spam classifier written in Python.""". I was actually referring to the SpamBayes home page at http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ which doesn't contain the word "Python" anywhere in its body text - though as I did point out, the title of the page *does*. Sorry about the lack of clarity. I don't have any problem at all with the site, and I know that SpamBayes does actually reflect kudos on the Python language in many people's minds. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

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Re: [spambayes-dev] [Fwd: RE: SpamBayes wins PCW Editors Choice Awardfor anti-spam software.]
by Tony Meyer Aug. 31, 2005

Aug. 31, 2005

[...] > I was actually referring to the SpamBayes home page at > > http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/ > > which doesn't contain the word "Python" anywhere in its body text - Does now :) (I threw it in at an easy place; if anyone wants it done differently, send a patch, or check it in ;) =Tony.Meyer

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