On 1/8/04 10:20 PM, Gary Lists deftly typed out: > 1. The absolute best "rule" in Entourage 2001, for me, is the built-in Junk > Mail Filter. This is no surprise. They're experts, I'm not. It's a great > tool.
Out of curiosity...did you rotate the rule precedence to give each rule first crack at filtering your junk mail? You can't really measure the effectiveness of a rule if it is always second after another rule. For example...say you have rule A, B and C, in that order: Rule A = 50% of your spam Rule B = 30% Rule C = 5% If you don't rotate the rules and give rules B and C a shot at being first on the same set of messages you haven't really measured their relative effectiveness. Perhaps rule C would have caught almost everything rules A and B would have: Rule C = 83% Rule A = 1% Rule B = 1% If this were the case you could reduce the message processing effectiveness by simply re-ordering the rules. Why spend time processing rules A and B when the message could have already been discarded/filed by rule C? I run a mail server at the company I work for and I periodically rotate the precedence of the RBLs we use to measure their relative effectiveness. -Remo Del Bello -- "Love is a merry elf dancing a happy jig, when suddenly, he turns on you with a submachine gun." - Matt Groening -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
