Re: [Declude.JunkMail] SpamD/SpamC for Declude

[Matt]

I think that I've pointed out the caveats many times over on blocking with SBL.  SBL is though more accurate than my system as a whole, and I have never seen a true false positive with it. I've asked this several times; has anyone ever seen a false positive with SBL?  I've not ever received a single reply to that question, though this is the 3rd time I've asked it now. I'm sure that human error can come into play, but they are the most respected RBL out there by a mile, and if you find yourself listed on SBL, there's a 99.99% chance that it is for good reason, and if not, you need to get your IP out of these because you are surely being blocked by many, many organizations.  The only time that this should happen is if you inherited a spam block and your provider didn't bother getting the block delisted, or if you are unfortunate enough to have hosted your server at a well known spam house. This is the only RBL that I even weight at or above  my hold weight.  I'm quite anal about false positives as well, but until someone points out a flaw in SBL, I'm going to trust them absolutely. I think your advice is well founded, however it is a generalization and exceptions may apply. Matt   Bill Landry wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Another idea would be to block SBL with IMail 8 so that stuff never gets to Declude. SBL can be as much as 25% of my traffic, and I weight that in Declude so that it deletes on just that one hit. This could potentially save you a good deal of processing power and be huge for your system. You can still keep track of statistics by using IMail's daily report to show you how many messages got stopped that way and adding them into your Declude results. Deleting messages based on a single test result is very bad advice. No test is 100% accurate, and in my experience they are typically less than 90%. If it works for you, and you and your users don't care about the legitimate messages you are most likely deleting, that's fine. But to make this recommendation to others without the appropriate caviate is irresponsible. Bill --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. -- ===================================================== MailPure custom filters for Declude JunkMail Pro. http://www.mailpure.com/software/ =====================================================