RE: Question about hit rate

[Mark A. DeMichele]

Title: Question about hit rate

I was just going to post a list of my rule files and discovered that a couple of them had a “txt” extension tagged onto them.  It must of happened when I did a Save As from IE and I didn’t notice.  backhair and tripwire were ok, the others were not.  Maybe my hit rate will improve now.   Thanks, Mark   P.S.   I’m assuming when I reply to these messages that I should remove the previous senders e-mail address and just leave the spamassassin-users address.  Is that correct.  Sometimes there is no spamassassin-users address.   From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 9:27 AM To: Mark A. DeMichele; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question about hit rate   33%-50% of spam making it thru????? No that is not normal. tripwire, bigevil, evilnumbers, backhair.....ect alone should catch more then that. Are you sure they are working???   It should be more like 1-4 per 1000 spams slipping thru.   --Chris -----Original Message----- From: Mark A. DeMichele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about hit rate I'm new to this list and just go started using SpamAssassin a few weeks ago.  I'm currently not set up to use the Bayesian portion. I'm on a windows system and wanted to start off slow.  Plus, I don't quite understand the logic, though I'm there is some.  It seems that most critical part of the Bayesian portion if for users to communicate (some how) to the engine false negatives and positives.  Is this correct?  It seems without that salearn would mark urls of spams that get through as possibly good urls. Which leads me to my major question. I've downloaded most of the rule files from the Rules Emporium, but even with those rules, 1 out of every 2 or 3 spams still gets through.  Is this normal? Thanks, Mark DeMichele