On 16/12/2009 14:23, LuKreme wrote:
uses. The only thing that really matters is how effective they are. If
a blacklist blocks spammers without blocking too many legitimate mails,
use it. If a whitelist allows legitimate mail without sending through
too many spams, use it. Even lists that have a fair number of false
hits are useful in SA -- just with lower scores.
The trouble with this is how often are these rules being re-examined and
re-evaluated?
Not that often. HABEAS has been through three iterations since those rules were
set at −4 and −8.
What is enabled by default should be the safest possible settings. Relying on a
third party that is in the spam business to make money doesn't seem very
prudent to me, especially when it might be 5 years before the scores in the
default config are evaluated again. And that doesn't even take into account the
glacial speed at which most people upgrade their systems. We still see
questions here for SA 3.1 and earlier.
(Whatever you think of HABEAS they ARE in the SPAM business and they are in it
to make money).
For what it's worth, I just ran sa-stats.pl against my last ten days of
logs. The only mention of habeas was:
10 HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI 367 1.45 0.00 17.36
So it hit on 17.36% of my Ham, and 0% of my Spam.
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Mike Cardwell - IT Consultant and LAMP developer
Cardwell IT Ltd. (UK Reg'd Company #06920226) http://cardwellit.com/
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