On Fri, 17 May 2002 10:00:06 -0600 Mike Avery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 May 2002 at 4:38, Sharon Tucci wrote: >> Here are a few of my current pet peeves:
> In researching Spam Assassin, I found many mass mailers are very upset > about it. Many users are delighted. Evidently it cuts more than 99% > of the spam. Some people don't mind missing some legitimate emails as > well. SPAM assassin has a roughly 0.002% false positive rate here (~3K messages checked per day). The false negative rate is climbing alas, but that is solely due to the increased rate of mailmerged SPAM I'm getting (my address in To:. address and/or name in message body, etc). I can live with a 0.002% false positive rate quite comfortably, especially as its the very rare exception among those false positives that I actually want to read (hasn't happened yet this year). -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
