On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:36 AM, DAve <dave.l...@pixelhammer.com> wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> My blacklist hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com is rising in the charts. Here's >> a blacklist comparison chart. >> >> http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html >> > > Those results differ wildly with my stats over the past year. Barracuda > throws far too many FP for me to use on the MTA, I have to use it in SA and > let the better tests pull the score up to tagging levels. It does provide a > good foundation for the score though. > > The invaluement lists are not even tested and URI is my single best URI test > with a %98.3 hit rate and zero FP. I could survive with Invaluement's URI > and URIBL_BLACK (%97.3, zero FP) and tag nearly all my URI spam. Invaluement > SIP is not listed either and it fully accounts for over 40% of my MTA > blocks, beating SpamHaus most of the time. >
+1 for the invaluement lists. they are excellent, sad that they aren't listed in that comparison. we seem to get better results with barracuda than you've seen, many of our clients choose to use the barracuda list to block. we offer the hostkarma lists as well but probably introduced them too soon, the FPs were high back when we first offered it and most clients chose to score only if they use them at all. I am going to re-evaluate though, and maybe recommend to some clients. I have heard that the FP rate has improved. > While we are not a big deal in email, we do get 300k connections a day every > day, approaching 600k when things get bad. We have a wide variety of clients > from dialup/DSL users to corporate users. Our clients receive mail from > Europe and the Pacific Rim regularly. > > I'm just sayin... > > DAve > > -- > "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to > preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you > do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to > preserve it." John Quincy Adams > > http://appleseedinfo.org > >
