On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:26:24 -0400, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> More recently this discussion came up on debian-user [1]: > > All the rest of the numbers are for March: > CrossAssassin: 7375 > SpamAssassin: 4672 > Other filters: 333 > -> subtotal: 12380 > Total blocked spam: ~37700 > > Actual messages pushed through the list: 3404 > > ... > > I went through the archive for March, and pulled out the numbers. I > found 25 spam messages, which leaves us with 3379 valid messages. > > ... > > 25/37700 works out to be 0.066% of spam not being blocked. > > Again, those are the words of Pascal Hakim, one of the list masters. > So, the short version is that you bet that all of the mail that actually > gets through to Debian mailing lists represents less than 10% of the > mail that arrives at the Debian mailing list server. Considering the > astonishing amount of spam that gets blocked, I say that they have done > outstanding job. > > Besides, when there are obvious attacks (like spams start flooding into > the BTS or onto the lists that have managed to get past the filters, the > list masters jump into action and modify the filters to catch the new > spam flood. > > Does your mail server perform better than allowing 0.066% of spam > through for a comparable level of traffic? I know mine doesn't. I'd > love it if my filters were even half as effective as those on the Debian > mail servers. ..aye, and you might have considered working on them rather than engage me in flame wars on debian-user this same March. ;o) > Regards, > > -Roberto > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/07/msg00013.html > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00723.html ..but new eyes may see new things. Go ahead. :o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]