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2006-06-07 Thread Darin Cox
PM Subject: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? Hello Darin, Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 5:09:27 PM, you wrote: >>That would be a bad idea, sorry. After 30 days (heck, after 2) spam is >>usually long-since filtered, o

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2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 5:09:27 PM, you wrote: >>That would be a bad idea, sorry. After 30 days (heck, after 2) spam is >>usually long-since filtered, or dead. As a result, looking at 30 day >>old spam would have a cost, but little benefit. > You misinterpreted what I was saying.

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2006-06-07 Thread Darin Cox
>> This also got me thinking of the flip side, spam reporting. There's a >> significant untapped load of spam that sniffer doesn't fail that we filter. >> I was thinking about creating a filter to copy your spam@ address with >> messages that get moved to our archive (we archive held spam for 30 d

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2006-06-07 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Darin, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 7:49:37 PM, you wrote: > This also got me thinking of the flip side, spam reporting. There's a > significant untapped load of spam that sniffer doesn't fail that we filter. > I was thinking about creating a filter to copy your spam@ address with > messages t

Re: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Darin Cox
ssed for FPs. Thoughts? Darin. - Original Message - From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Message Sniffer Community" Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 7:29 PM Subject: [sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? Hello Matt, Tu

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2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Matt, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 12:37:56 PM, you wrote: > appropriately and tend to hit less often, but the FP issues with > Sniffer have grown due to cross checking automated rules with other > lists that I use, causing two hits on a single piece of data. For > instance, if SURBL has an FP

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2006-06-06 Thread Markus Gufler
n Colbeck, Andrew > Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juni 2006 18:09 > An: Message Sniffer Community > Betreff: Re: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? > > I use just shy of 60 DNS based tests against the sender, both > IP4R and RHSBL. > > Perhaps 10-12 matter. &g

Re: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Matt
I have 46 RBL's configured, though 16 are configured to score differently on last hop and prior hops. I would say that more than 35 of these are things that I would not like to lose. I weight most RBL's at around half of my Hold weight in Declude. False positives on my system typically hit a

Re: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? > > Hello Sniffer Folks, > > I have a design question for you... > > How many DNS based tests do you use in your filter system? > > How many of them really matter?

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2006-06-06 Thread Scott Fisher
l Spam tests: http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/spamtestbymonth.html ham tests: http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/hamtestsbymonth.html - Original Message - From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Message Sniffer Community" Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:26 AM Subject: [sn

[sniffer]Re[2]: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
gt; -Original Message- > From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Pete McNeil > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:26 AM > To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests? > Hello Sniffer Folks,

Re: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Hayer
Hi Pete, Pete McNeil wrote: How many DNS based tests do you use in your filter system? approx 100 How many of them really matter? depends :) I generally weight them all very low; its the combination of several that make each 'matter'. As I review held mail I remove ones that are b

Re: [sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Peer-to-Peer (Support)
Hi _M, Do you mean like reverse PTR records, or HELO lookups, etc..? --Paul R. -Original Message- From: Message Sniffer Community [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete McNeil Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:26 AM To: Message Sniffer Community Subject: [sniffer]A design question - how

[sniffer]A design question - how many DNS based tests?

2006-06-06 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Sniffer Folks, I have a design question for you... How many DNS based tests do you use in your filter system? How many of them really matter? Thanks! _M -- Pete McNeil Chief Scientist, Arm Research Labs, LLC. # This message