After living with it for quite some time now, to be honest I don't think the false positives would go up any significant degree.
Our office ASSP processes an average of 1100 messages per day. About 65% of those it classifies as spam. Today I saw the first spam message that got through it in the last two weeks and haven't had any false positives in the same period. Of course, this is all relative. Much depends on the kinds of emails an organization typically gets. An office wouldn't normally get the same volume of spam messages as an ISP hosting a bunch of 'click on everything and give out my name to anyone' moron email accounts (well, most offices anyway). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 15:44 Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Another shameless plug for ASSP... > Sounds good, but if you step up to the next level to 99+% spam blocking you > will get some false positives. When we first installed Declude we were > happy with the 80% blocking out of the box, but since then anything below > 97% is unacceptable to us and many of our users that would normally receive > a lot of spam. > > With 99% blocking, it's quite common to have as much as 1% false positives, > though some have tweaked down to the 0.1% or lower range. > > Darin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Blank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 3:19 PM > Subject: [IMail Forum] Another shameless plug for ASSP... > > > I love iMail, but am not pleased with its anti-spam features.. this led me > to try the open-source ASSP (assp.sourceforge.net). > > My clients are extremely happy with it, as am I. I don't make a cent from > recommending it or from anyone using it, except for what my clients pay me > to set it up. > > I have shut off ALL of the iMail anti-spam features, btw. I and my > clients get VERY few false positives, although they do occasionally > appear. For example, in the last month I have had NO false positives on > my own mail server, am rejecting 91% (1200 emails or so per day!) of all > email as spam, and get 1-3 actual spam emails in my inbox a day. My > clients' experiences are similar (79-91% spam). And maintenance is as > close to nil as can be. I now can spend my time on other issues. Manually > fighting spam is a bear, as you know. > > So until there's a new Internet standard in place that fights spam better.. > ASSP is where I'll be. > > -Paul > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
