> On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Bill Wichers wrote: >> The trouble is that we tag, but don't block, most of >> the spam since our customers don't want us to "maybe cost a sale" by >> blocking something that shouldn't be blocked. > > I've been using simscan to block messages that score 8 or higher for at > least 3 months now, and haven't had a single complaint. The result is > we're blocking 57% of the inbound email, which greatly reduces the load > all around (fewer calls to vdelivermail, less load from users > downloading the spam, etc.) > > Based on my logs, we could block 50% by dropping at 12+. I can't > believe that there would be a legitimate message scoring a 12+ that I > would not want to miss.
Tom and Others, How did/do you go about training SA? Just interested to hear what others are doing. We have been blocking at a score of 6.5 and do get the odd False Positive, though our customers dont seem to mind. cheers Shane