On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:20:10PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Rudolph Pereira wrote: > > > I am trying to work out "typical" results for how much spam SA catches > > in it's default configuration, without bayes or dnsrbl (or any network > > tests) configured. My understanding was that it would be in the order of > > 70%, but I am getting between 30-40% on the corpus I have (~2k spam all > > from the last few months). > > What version of SA do you run? I find it's highly variable; some people > get 80% coverage with stock SA, and others only get 25%. 2.63 > > I strongly recommend the SURBL rules, and some of the other rules from > http://www.rulesemporium.com/, and the "popcorn", "weeds" and > "backhair" rules at http://www.spamfighter.org/bb2/download.php?list.6 With the additional static rules, it goes up to about 50%. DNSRBL adds about 10% on top of that.
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