Comments on: SpamSieve Since 2.0

By: Spike_S

Spike_S — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:39:07 +0000

Ok, I get no spam at all, here's why.

1. I don't post my email address to sites that make it public, including RSS/BLOG/Webcrossing/etc. and Usenet, IM profiles, etc.

2. I do put my email address in the signature that I use in Mail.app, but I only send email to real people from there, not mailing lists.

3. I do subscribe to Yahoo! and MSN Groups regularly, however they have their own webmail that I never bother to check but once each 6 months or so.

4. I use Javascript on my website to hide my email address but still make it link-able. for my Resume I'm switching to PDF exclusively with a Word document available upon request. I tried munging, doesn't work well, newbies don't know how to delete the .removethispart. for some reason in their new mail messages. I tried entity encoding and it actually made me a target for web crawlers, wound up having to get a new shell account because of that.

5. I love freeshell (sdf.lonestar.org) because they offer shell for the life of their service for just $1.00 or â‚¬5.00 with web (15MB) and gopher (15MB) hosting, email (15MB), webmail access, and of course really great BSD shell access.

By: Easy as Spam | NSLog();

Easy as Spam | NSLog(); — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 03:27:20 +0000

Who in the hell opens messages that look like this? This is a screenshot of the subject column of my spam folder. If people didn't...

By: A View From Home

A View From Home — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:06:41 +0000

SpamSieve Erik posted his SpamSieve 2.0 stats, and I'm equally impressed. Still getting more false positives than I like, but I'm sure that will improve as I'm diligent about telling SpamSieve what it's doing wrong through the scripts. What I love...

By: Michael Tsai

Michael Tsai — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:57:18 +0000

Erik: the high false positives number is likely due to having a lot more spam messages than good ones in your corpus. In SpamSieve 1.x, this was helpful for catching more spam. In 2.x, it's probably best not to have more than twice as many spam messages as good ones.

By: Johan Svensson

Johan Svensson — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:22:19 +0000

I wish I got spam as well so I can try all these nice spam filters... Somehow, the spammers must have missed me.

Well, I hid a honeypot email address in a HTML comment on my site. Let's see how long it takes for it to be discovered.