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Keyword Filter Problems

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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=672
Printed Date: 26 December 2024 at 6:43am


Topic: Keyword Filter Problems
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Keyword Filter Problems
Date Posted: 24 May 2003 at 3:21pm

Hi All,

I have put on the keyword filter the following line "gain,pro" (without '"")

i have noticed that mails with the words again and professional are also quarantine.

As much as i rememeber  it should work this way, the filter is looking for the words gain & pro and not inside words...

 

Any Ideas?

Thanks.


Replies:
Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 25 May 2003 at 10:33am

The keyword filter performs substring searches, meaning it will look for the letters "gain" anywhere in the text. Words like again, bargain, against will trigger a match. The more keywords are required for a match, the less chances the will be for false positives. But the less spam will be caught... Choosing the right keywords is something that is not easy unfortunately...

Roberto Franceschetti
LogSat Software 

Posted By: Sean
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 1:51pm
As a Trick... Try adding a space before the word gain and pro (ex " gain, pro"). This will look for these exact matches.

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 27 May 2003 at 8:15pm
Why use such simple keywords. Both of those words would be uced by a lot of normal email users. I would think that if you are tring to block SPAM messages there would have to be better keywords in the SPAM that could be used to filter them.

Posted By: Sean
Date Posted: 28 May 2003 at 9:56am
I'm guessing they were just examples... :)

Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11 June 2003 at 11:59am

Maybe SpamFilter should search for " gain " or " gain[,.] " instead of  "gain"

Abdu


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