2006-05-23 Spam

Got 345 mails at work, 339 were recognized as spam, 6 candidates for ham remain: Of these one was spam, and 5 useful mails remain. ThunderBird recognized 339 of 340 spam mails: 99.7%. I quickly scanned the spam folder to check for false positive, but didn’t find anything obvious.

ThunderBird

The sheer volume of spam is astounding. 340 out of 345 mails were spam: 98.6%.

At home, I got 37 non-spam, a few list related stuff that I don’t read anyway, and about 240 spam mails, as detected by ThunderBird. A quick scan indicates that two mails from the Minstrels List got misclassified as spam!! Argh!

ThunderBird

Of the 37 mails that got through, 17 were spam email judging by subject and sender.

Too bad, 240 out of 257 is only 93.4% of the spam identified correctly. It needs more training! 😄 (Or a clean slate.)

One of the differences between home and work is that at work there’s an additional, commercial (?) spam-filter on the server adding meta-data.

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