I've always felt very uneasy about gateway blocking. I'd rather tag
messages as spam, and let the users take a look at see if it's really
spam or not. I assume that IMF allows me to do this.

Thanks,
Erick 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Stidley, Joel
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:10 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 SP1 for spam
> 
> IMF uses a proprietary Bayesian-like filter developed in the 
> Microsoft think-tank called SmartScreen.  It works pretty 
> decent, at least for the type of spam I receive, YMMV.
> 
> Typically you will set the gateway blocking fairly high (~8) 
> and set the junk-mail folder fairly low (3-4).  The 
> performance counters help you to tweak it a little better for 
> your mail patterns as it shows how many mail messages are 
> tagged with each SCL.  
> 
> You may find that it does the job nicely.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Erick Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:02 PM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Exchange 2003 SP1 for spam
> 
> I was getting things ready for an installation of ASSP for 
> anti spam use. Then, Exchange 2003 SP1 came out, and if it 
> works well, I'd like to stick with it. Has anyone used it 
> enough at this point to comment on how well it handles spam?
> 
> One of things I like about ASSP are that any address you send 
> to will automatically be whitelisted. And it's a Bayesian 
> filter, but you can override it. I haven't seen any public 
> info on how SP1 detects spam, so it anyone knows, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Erick
> 
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