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Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout

Posted by timothy on from the hawaii-alaska-and-utah dept.

Simon Lyall writes "A new study of antispam software shows that Spamassassin performed well in various configurations along with Spamprobe , Bogofilter and Spambayes also came out good while CRM-114 failed to live up to its previous claims . The study shows: 'The best-performing filters reduced the volume of incoming spam from about 150 messages per day to about 2 messages per day.'"

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  1. Quit acting like goddamn babies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    Baysian, gaysian. Real men hit delete.

    1. Re:Quit acting like goddamn babies... by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pfft, Real men have this as the ~/.bashrc

      #!/bin/sh
      rm -f /var/spool/mail/$USER

      Who needs email.

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    2. Re:Quit acting like goddamn babies... by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 2, Funny
      Silly rabbit! all you need is

      ln -s /dev/null /var/spool/mail/$USER


      and you will have email peace forever. ^_^
  2. A little advice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't want to face an assassin in a shootout. Maybe a pie eating contest, or a spelling bee... but not a shootout.

  3. Re:Isn't Human Accuracy always 100% by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember, an email being classified as spam is sujective. For example, you might consider a message from a Nigerian bank manager spam, but I may consider it a way to pay of the house :)

    Or, presonally I consider all email I get with the from hotmail.com is spam. But that is my opinion.

    OT: btw, a friend at work actually got a Nigerian scam letter in the post. Because it was not email, he thought it was real.

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  4. Re:Isn't Human Accuracy always 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    OT: you need smarter friends.

  5. Re:Isn't Human Accuracy always 100% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course, the grandparent could be a Nigerian bank manager, making you both correct.

  6. Re:Why am I so Blessed? by lewko · · Score: 3, Funny
    How come I have an @hotmail.com email for 4+ years (pre-MSN) and I only get 15 junk mails a week?

    Because the 15 junk mails put you over quota?

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