it.
It's false positive rate is very low (pretty much non-existent) although
it's miss-rate is therefore higher than some - but since I get 300-400
messages a day with only 2 or 3 real mails I'd rather filter the few misses
from the inbox than a very few false positives from the huge "junk" folder.
It integrates well with Outlook (and others, but I use Outlook) and doesn't
force it's opinions down your throat (you can choose which folder to store
spam in, monitor many inboxes, continue to use Outlook rules and so forth -
all things that other packages have fallen down on).
It does (like most tools) have a learning curve - depending on the
under-the-cover tools used it may take more than a day to see real
improvements. iHateSpam seems to reach it's peak rate after about 600-900
messages have been rated - about 3-4 days for me, more or less for others.
I'm not sure how much learning is required for Spam Assassin (if any) but it
could very well improve over time.
Jim Davis
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From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:40 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Disappointed
I decided to try using Spam Assassin today and let me tell you, I was very
disappointed. It blocked as much valid email as it did spam and let through
more
spam than not. I get a much better result with my own anti-spam program. I
just
don't know how people can look at that program as 'the' spam blocker.
One of these days I'm going to have time to integrate my package into iMS
and
make it more public. One of these days.
--
Michael Dinowitz
Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
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