[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Fox,Thomas, I might ad that for a long while it has been a common recommendation for SNF to be weighted at 70-80% of your "hold" weight. Quite often, some result categories are weighted to hold on their own. These days blackhats are using a burst-mode delivery tactic that makes it virtually

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Steve, This is an important point. Most of the image spam rules and in particular "abstract heuristics" are coded to the experimental rule group. The name implies only that these rules are not direct matches for components of the message (singly or in combination) as are most other rules - R

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Rick, Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 8:34:55 AM, you wrote: > I just signed my annual renewal for Sniffer but it seems that it used to > catch lots of the email and now is only catching about 50% of the email Why > when we are sending in our information does this continue to happen? We are

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Fox,Thomas
Hi Rick, I've found that tuning for spam is a constant process. I am always tweaking settings, changing weights, etc., in response to spam leakage. Just yesterday I spent about 2 hours on it. I (very reluctantly) implemented some phrase filtering, using the filter function in Declude. I've been

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Guluk
On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Rick Hogue wrote:I just signed my annual renewal for Sniffer but it seems that it used to catch lots of the email and now is only catching about 50% of the email Why when we are sending in our information does this continue to happen? We are getting lots of you won, Pha

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Tech Support
We've been very happy putting invURIBL into the mix :) -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:11 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as mu

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread David Moore
Community Subject: [sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to. Hi Rick, It's a constant battle, with spammers getting more sophisticated, and filtering tools trying to catch up and anticipate the next move. That said, we do not see the kind of leakage you see, probably due to

[sniffer] Re: Sniffer does not catch as much as it used to.

2006-09-20 Thread Darin Cox
Hi Rick, It's a constant battle, with spammers getting more sophisticated, and filtering tools trying to catch up and anticipate the next move. That said, we do not see the kind of leakage you see, probably due to other tests we run on our systems. I would recommend you supplement with BLs and o