[sniffer] Sniffer vs. SURBL

[Andy Schmidt]

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Hi,

 

Today I finally took the time (I didn't have) and ran both Sniffer and SURBL Tests (using http://www.invariantsystems.com/invURIBL/).

 

Result:

 

  1,860  tagged by invURIBL only -> gain over Sniffer = 21%

  8,926  tagged by BOTH invURIBL AND Sniffer

     962  tagged by Sniffer only -> gain over invURIBL = 11%

 

In other words:

 

If I ran ONLY Sniffer, I would have missed 21% of additional messages that were detected by checking against SURBL.

If I tested SURBL only, I would have missed 11% of messages (that only Sniffer found)

I have configured Declude, so that the two tests are complimentary (no extra weight BOTH tests vs. ONE test fails.)

 

My conclusion:

 

Both Sniffer and invURIBL are worth their money...

 

 

PS: here the "raw" numbers:

 

DLAnalyzer(4.0.5 - 12/21/2004) Report Generated At 1/9/2005 12:48:14 AM For Argos.net

Breakdown Of Messages That Failed: INV-URIBL
Messages That Matched: 10,786

TEST             # FAILED   Percentage
IPNOTINMX..........10,372.......96.16%
SNIFFER.............8,926.......82.76%
NOLEGITCONTENT......8,673.......80.41%
SPAMCOP.............4,983.......46.20%
SORBS...............4,521.......41.92%
XBL-DYNA............4,470.......41.44%

 

Breakdown Of Messages That Failed: SNIFFER
Messages That Matched: 9,888

TEST             # FAILED   Percentage
IPNOTINMX...........9,611.......97.20%
INV-URIBL...........8,926.......90.27%
NOLEGITCONTENT......8,788.......88.88%
SPAMCOP.............5,208.......52.67%
XBL-DYNA............4,672.......47.25%
SORBS...............4,664.......47.17%

Best Regards
Andy Schmidt

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