Well, here we get about 20 times that volume, so it's not surprising that we see the occasional FP. As a rule they're because of misconfigured or broken email systems at the sender's end.
Like most systems ours breaks spam into 'possible/suspect' and 'definatly spam' - we have only about 20 of the first category each day, so it's easy to do an 'eyeball scan' for FP's. My point was that many users don't realise that it's easy to: - eliminate spam completely - avoid 'false positives' ...it's just tough to do both at the same time :-) - steve -----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 12 March 2006 5:02 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: More ISP genius On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:26:16 +1300 Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm all in favour of bashing ISP's, but.... > > Wesley said: > > > > What am I paying for? Where's my money going? > > > > Well in this case clearly it's partly funding a spam filter. As well > as this newsletter, it sounds like you had quite bit of *actual* spam > stopped, something you'd have had to do yourself otherwise. > > In the real world all current spamfilters will miss some spam, and all > will have the occasional 'false positive' > > - steve > (...who runs a couple of dozen spamassassin sites - and a couple of > MailMarshal ones on W) > > ========================================================= > > > This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by > CommArc Cube Server > Maybe you need to try a new concept - look for mailwasher on sourceforge. OK, I run the project, but personally (honest!), I got my first false positive ( a standard letter from vmware ) a couple of weeks ago, and my stats say that it's quarantined 17,175 spams from 79,303 mails, over about 12 months. I never get more that 10 spams a month. Steve ========================================================= This e-mail has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by CommArc Cube Server
