I have an enlighten me question here.

I hear what you responded to this person about catching legitimate email and
have no reason to doubt what you say.

However, you publish month end results of the declude tests and tell what
percent the methods caught based on emails that you specifically put out on
the universe to attract spam.

As these addresses were specifically put out as bait and not legit addresses
that are used for every day correspondence, how can you be so sure that
legitimate email would ALSO not be caught up in the declude rankings - as no
legitimate email is coming into these test?



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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 9:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail anti-spam dnsbl



>For anyone interested (who's still using Imail's
>anti-spam as I am), I've come up with a combination of
>DNS based blacklists which is proving to be VERY
>effective with no false positives. Note - I have the
>server set to trash an email if ANY ONE of these find
>a server listed. Here it is:

FYI, at least 2 of those tests would each catch about 1% of our legitimate
mail (all those tests combined would probably result in about 2% false
positive ratio here).  So while it may be very effective for you, others
should be very careful before following the advice (most people seem to aim
for a false positive ratio of about .1% or better).

                                                    -Scott
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