Is there a downloadable corpus?

[iCowboy]

Hi,

I’m lucky that I don’t get a lot of spam, but this has a drawback, SpamSieve isn’t very good at identifying the ones I do get - in part because it doesn’t see that many messages to build a profile.

Is there a downloadable corpus of ‘the best of spam’ I can get hold of to train my own copy in what it should be looking out for?

Many thanks,

Mike.

[Michael_Tsai]

@iCowboy

I’m lucky that I don’t get a lot of spam, but this has a drawback, SpamSieve isn’t very good at identifying the ones I do get - in part because it doesn’t see that many messages to build a profile.

How many spam and good messages are in your corpus? Have you verified, from looking at the log, that SpamSieve is seeing all your incoming messages?

@iCowboy

Is there a downloadable corpus of ‘the best of spam’ I can get hold of to train my own copy in what it should be looking out for?

No. I found that using your own spam was much better, even if you only have a hundred or so.