No, I mean what does Ham mean? Does Ham mean legit e-mail? Or is that like mail from BulkSenders which some people might consider Spam and some might consider legit?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam tests by months > My weighting system is this: > <100 No action (27.7% of all mail in Jan 2005) > 100 Subject tag (.5% of all mail) (1/3 of this weight range tend to be > spam) > 200 Hold (.5% of all mail) (I average 1 a month of Ham in hold) > 300 Delete (71.3% of all mail) > > As I have to draw a line somewhere, I drew the line at 200. Everything held > or deleted is considered spam. > Everything under 200 is considered ham, I think this is fairly conservative. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Geiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam tests by months > > > > Scott, > > How do you define Ham? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Scott Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com> > > Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:14 PM > > Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Spam tests by months > > > > > > I've compiled my spam test results over the last year to look at test > > effectiveness trends. > > > > If anyone is interested I've posted them on my website. I've never really > > seen test effectiveness trended over a year period anywhere else. > > > > All tests spam vs. ham based on all emails. > > http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/Testsbymonth.html > > Spam tests based on all spam emails. > > http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/spamtestbymonth.html > > Ham tests based on all ham emails. > > http://it.farmprogress.com/declude/hamtestsbymonth.html > > > > Warning these are large HTML files. > > > > Some examples: > > Spamcop triggered on 83% of my Feb 2004 spam emails and has downward > trended > > to 57% of my January 2005 spam emails. > > Message Sniffer has stayed at 95-96% detection of all spam emails from > June > > 2004 to Jan 2005. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) > > > > --- > > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > > --- > > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > > > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > --- > This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To > unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found > at http://www.mail-archive.com. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
