[Spambayes] Project

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Mon, January 18, 2010 17:33, Anthony.Green at uea.ac.uk wrote:
> Hey guys, my name's Anthony Green and I'm a student at UEA, Norwich, UK.
> I'm currently doing a project on spam emails and am searching for filters
> to combine together as part of it, each of which I can train and then test
> on. SpamBayes looks great, but I need to know which commands to use to
> train it (but I can probably figure this one out from the documentation),
> but more importantly I need to be able to get results out at the end. Does
> SpamBayes have facilities to provide me with test results, either via a
> report after passing it some test emails, or modifying the test emails
> headers to provide me with a classification? If so, how do I use them?
> Sorry if I'm being too vague! I'm currently using the filter on Windows.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide,
>
> Anthony Green

That's nice, I am also a student (evening classes at CVO Leerstad,
Lokeren, Belgium) and I'm also doing a project on spam.

Are you evaluating server-side antispam or client-side antispam? I am
concentrating on server solutions: dspam, amavis, spamassassin, RBLs,
greylisting,...
I'm also trying to collect a large enough test set, if I get cooperation
at work then I have a couple of million emails that I can test on.
A local hosting company has agreed to lend me a test server for a couple
of months. Well maybe, the details aren't clear yet.

Perhaps we could compare notes? I think that international cooperation
could be an enrichment for the both of us.

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Amedee Van Gasse
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