On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:53:03 -0800, arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx <arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Folks, > I am suffering from serious spam problem. I know that i > can use spamassassin for this purpose but my system administrator has > disabled this facility might be he thinks that it would slow down the > server. I have no way to detect spams. I used procmail, it works for > 20% of the cases because i used some specific dictionary words to > check for spam because these mails are related to some particular > subject. I cannot filter the mails because the mails are from > different email IDs. The idea of using specific dictionary word failed > because they used some special characters to represent some characters > e.g. they used /\ for A. 1(one) or | (pipe) in place I( I for Indigo) > \/ (backslash and forward slash ) for V. > I want a program which is not heavy in terms of CPU cycles > consumed, which i can run from from my home directory(independent of > binaries installed on the server). Might be a simple perl script. > Please reply me from where i can get this program. It need not be > very accurate. 70% to 80% accuracy is fine. The first thing I would do is switch to Thunderbird as a mail client, and turn on adaptive junk mail filtering (Tools--Junk Mail Controls). It has an accuracy at least as good as what you need, once it's "trained," and using it is painless. Then I would start nagging my system admin about SpamAssassin anyway. At work I have SpamAssassin plus Thunderbird, and it works a lot better than Thunderbird alone (which is what I do at home). SA may slow down the server a little, but you can almost always buy a faster server for a lot less than the value of the time all the people are wasting. I mean, the whole reason we have computers is that they're much better than people at mindless, repetitive tasks. Spam killing is a job for computers, not people.
