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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by ji...@jidanni.org on 2008/03/01 22:22:49 UTC

success story: reviewing one's spam by score

Gentlemen, reviewing one's spam, ordered by score, and threaded, is
definitely the way to go in one's daily check for false positives.
Here's how it looks for me in gnus, using my brilliant
http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/spamdealer.html orderer:

 . 8 080229|2.0|Secretsline In:Best VPN service
 .    1 080229|2.1|Secretsline Ad:
 .    1 080229|6.8|Secretsline In:
 .    1 080229|6.9|Secretsline In:
 .    1 080301|8.2|Secretsline Su:
 .    1 080301|11.1|Secretsline Ad:
 .    1 080301|11.1|Secretsline Ad:
 .    1 080301|11.1|Secretsline Ad:
 . 1 080301|2.9|Angie Holliday:Annotation scaling and control of layers
 . 1 080228|3.0|IAC LTD       :WORK AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE
 . 1 080301|3.0|Michael Ez    :ATTENTION PLEASE/REPLY FOR MORE DETAIL
 . 2 080302|3.4|Elliot Coulter:Medications that you need.
 .    1 080303|16.0|Kurtis Lester :
 . 1 080228|4.0|Universidad de:ncrementa tus VENTAS ahora! Con el UDI
 . 1 080228|4.0|British Nation:Notice!!
 . 1 080229|4.0|UK NATIONAL LO:2008 lucky winner
 . 1 080229|4.1|	:~2008/2/29 - 8:24:57 Canon  $100
 . 1 080228|4.4|MR Musa       :job offer
(250 more snipped)

Ah, one's daily spam check has now become a pleasure. A spamassassin
success story.

Notes:
We see on the 29th the VPN guys were scoring low with 2.0, but within
a day, the network tests had caught up with them, up to 11.1.

Musa is a banana genus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_%28genus%29
Here in the Taiwan hills I have ones filled with seeds.

Better stop here before the SPAM that CHANGED my LIFE.

I can see it: J. Mason, dedicated spam fighter, one day bored, started
looking at oh just one or two of the spam images and/or messages he
filtered. It was all downhill from there. Soon hypnotized, he began...