On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote:
> On 9/27/2008 5:27 PM, Vidar Tyldum Hansen wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 11:13:29PM +0200, Dirk Bonengel wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm the author of the iXhash plugin, a piece of code that computes a
>>> variety of 'fuzzy checksums' along the lines of the NiXSpam project
>>> (run by the German IT magazine iX).
>>
>> I would like to express my appreciation of your work.
>>
>>> I guess this list is the best place to ask those of you who use the
>>> plugin for feedback. I'd appreciate any comments and information an
>>> hit rates, FPs and such
>>
>> Stats for the last 12 hours:
>>
>> 70% hitrate on spam.
>> 0,1% hitrate on ham.
>>
>> 3000 emails in corpus.
>>
>
> 0.1% HAM hits seems unusually high.
> would you please check what kind of hams these are?
>
> are they newsletter/bulk or empty messages with attachements, other types?
That was too high, yes. My regex wasn't correct.
The FP rate is actually 1/15000.
The single FP I found was a "mailing list membership reminder" produced
by a mailman installation.
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Vidar Tyldum Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
