Hello, Entourage:mac Talk -- On 01/31/04 7:42 AM, IT Matters (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> My experience of the JMF turned up to almost 'max' is that it results in > about 2% false positives. I average about 200 emails per day of which about > 100 are junk, so 4% of genuine email is misidentified. I regard this as OK > and where I see a pattern I try to improve matters with rules. I don't > believe any spam device is 100% effective when looked at over a longish > period. Same here. I average probably 200 emails per day, of which more than half are spam. EntX's built-in filter was missing a lot, and like you, it required me to continuously set up new rules to try to combat spam. After switching to SpamSieve and letting it run through the its learning process for several days, better than 98% of all spam was caught right away (it marks the messages as Spam, and puts them in the spam filter, where you can scan subjects/senders before deleting, to make sure there are no false positives). Regarding the false positives (or negatives) that now only occur very, very occasionally (i.e. it's approx. 2 months later, and at absolute worst now, I get maybe 1 false-positive/negative every 1-2 "weeks", i.e. from up to 2,000 emails, approx. 0.05%-0.1%.....). If a false positive/negative does occur, it's a simple matter of ctrl-clicking on that message, selecting the pop-down SpamSieve script to "Add to Good" or "Add to Spam", and after that, any message of a similar type will no longer be false-classified (and, as that happens, SpamSieve gets trained, thus similar incidents become less and less over time). IMO, that's about as good and trouble-free as can be expected currently. SpamSieve costs all of $25, installs in maybe 2 minutes, doesn't crash or otherwise create problems of any kind, runs in the background, and the creator, Micheal Tsai, responds promptly to all emails and sends emails to registered owners when updates are available.... My vote goes for SpamSieve (disclaimer -- no connection to SpamSieve whatsoever, just a satisfied user). Cheers, George Arellano -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
