On Thursday 09 January 2003 08:06 am, Bob Apthorpe wrote: > I use: > > �- IP-based filtering (firewall rules, DNSBL checks in the > � �mailserver and in SpamAssassin) > > �- Pattern-matching (header & body checks in SpamAssassin; procmail > � �rules) > > �- Distributed message checksums (Razor & DCC) > > �- Statistical comparison to known good/bad email (bogofilter, and > � �eventually SA 2.50) > > Assuming you can tune each method to reject 50% of incoming spam with no > FPs, you've eliminated 93.75% of inbound spam. And that's just a naive
Actually it might be either a conservative estimate OR a pesimistic one depending on the degree of overlap in detection. For instance, how much of SpamAssassin's catch is really Razor's catch. Basically, I've found that SpamAssassin'e effectiveness is falling slowly over time (even though it is using razor). Probably due to the efforts of sites like these: http://www.associateprograms.com/search/spam-filter.shtml -- _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
