On Sonntag 17 Mai 2009 Yet Another Ninja wrote: > > I generally like the idea. But this project is in the beginners > > phase, and a whole lot of people will want to wait until others > > report it's benefits. After all, who wishes to put it in production > > and then maybe it causes a lot of FPs? > > Then YOU have caused the FPs by raising the score. Bobody told you > tgo score it above 0.5 and if you fear, YOU can lower the score.
OK > > That said, I'll implement and test it, and hopefully it's good, > > with no FPs. > > How can score of 0.001 cause a false positive? I didn't mean that the final result be a FP, just this one ruleset. Shouldn't the goal be to have no FPs and lots of corrects? > Considering most will use any old obsoleted ruleset without asking > questions (SARE) just coz others say its kewl, any generic fear of > FPs is totally unfounded as its all under the end user's control. > As with any published BL data, nobody is asking you to reject, > discard or closely trust the data published in the respective list. Interesting way to see this. I maintain the ZMI_GERMAN ruleset that a *lot* of people use, and whenever someone complains a FP (which were very few since the list was created in October 2005), I blame myself and improve. Not insult others saying "your fault". DNSBLs that create lots of FPs are quickly disabled by admins who have customers in their back. I didn't want to insult anybody, but it should be clear that if a ruleset is to be used it should have an advantage. I installed it on a small server getting about 73.800 connects a day, of which 70.400 are immediately rejected (34.000 because of RBL listing). Final incoming are about 3000 a day, of which very few are spam. I just started logging EMAILBL, we'll see if it helps here. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4
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