Ed Russell wrote:
I was doing some reading and I am beginning to look into Rules Du Jour. I
see there are quite a large number of rulesets to choose from when utilizing
this. Does anyone have any advice on what ones would be safe?
My experience with SARE has been they try very hard to classify their
rules based on their ability to hit spam correctly, and ham incorrectly.
After the first year using SARE I now just trust in their judgment ;^).
I generally get the zero rules when there is a choice (rules that hit
only spam in testing, named with a zero) and try them first. I choose
the rules based on the spam I am seeing slip through. I generally never
adjust their assigned points either.
These have always been good performers for me.
70_sare_html0.cf
70_sare_adult.cf
70_sare_oem.cf
70_sare_obfu.cf
This one is proving useful over the past few weeks,
70_sare_stocks.cf
I almost always grab any new rules announced and give them a try for a
few days as well.
DAve
Ed
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-----Original Message-----
From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 4:30 PM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: General assistance
Bowie Bailey wrote:
DAve wrote:
Ed Russell wrote:
2. Once this is in place should I re-activate pzyor, dcc or razor?
Is one better than the other? Are there advantages to either?
I use neither, though I think I am in the minority. I routinely check
my spam and I have found that bayes, rayzor, dcc, and most of the
SARE rules catch little if any spam "for me". So I don't run them and
save the CPU for additional spamd processes.
That's odd. Bayes, Razor2, DCC work quite well for me. Check out my
stats from today:
TOP SPAM RULES FIRED
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RANK RULE NAME COUNT %OFRULES %OFMAIL %OFSPAM
%OFHAM
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1 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 1280 5.02 48.05 83.33
0.98
2 RAZOR2_CHECK 1259 4.94 47.26 81.97
1.15
3 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 1164 4.56 43.69 75.78
0.27
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Razor2 caught 83% of the spam, DCC caught 68%, and Bayes got 64%.
They tagged plenty of spam for me, no doubt about that. But they caught
only a few spam that SA wouldn't have caught without them. It is rare
that bayes points on top of existing points ever made the score squeek
over the threshold.
Not using them however, dropped my CPU, network, and memory requirements
so much I could run twice as many spamd processes. Processing time went
from an average of 10 seconds (with all SARE rules, bayes, DCC, Razor)
to 2 seconds (limited SARE, no bayes, no razor, no dcc).
All the SARE rules loaded makes spamd run about 45-75mb each, selective
SARE rules and I can see spamd drop to 23-35mb. More spamd, faster spamd.
Of course tommorrow, everything could change ;^)
DAve
