A day in my spam life
November 28, 2009 – 10:23 pmJust for laughs, I looked at statistics for my spam yesterday. Here’s the results:
1) Spams caught by server-side SpamAssassin: 109
2) Spams caught by local bayes filter after passing SpamAssassin: 49
3) Spam marked by me that got through both filters: 2 (junkpercent scores were 63 and 66)
Total Spam: 160
For the server-side SpamAssassin filter, my spam detection limit is 5.0 This is the stock SpamAssassin filter supplied by default to all accounts by a large, inexpensive web hosting provider (hostmonster).
For my local bayes filter, my spam detection limit is set at 75.
I *never* have emails falsely marked as spam. I train spam reliably using the Uncertain folders in my JunQuilla addon. I have a limit of 300,000 tokens (with a current count of 118,690), 2097 good messages trained, 3748 junk messages trained.
Oh, and I use 2 customizations to tokenization using new hidden preferences available in TB3. First, I tokenize into words the Received header (it is disabled by default), plus I tokenize into words SpamAssassin’s X-SPAM-STATUS header (which is accepted as a single token by default, that is not broken into individual words.) I don’t believe these are very important, however, but I do think that they help a little.
Note to self: blog about customized tokenization settings in TB3, and try to do some analysis.
