On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:46:47AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:02:19AM -0600, Jason Cordes wrote: > > I'm using a rbl on my sendmail server here for my company but that has only > > lightly cut down on the amount of spam some of my users get. Is spamassasin > > only used to protect a single persons email or can it be used to protect a > > site? I'm thinking of checking it out but if it cannot really be used to > > protect a site then it's not going to be very helpful for me. > > We've had a large success rate with realtime blackhole lists and block > thousands of messages a day. However, we still see a lot of spam. > > I've done some personal testing with spamassassin and I really don't > like it - the false positive rate was way too high for me.
I agree with Ed - Not only does spamassassin have a false positive rate that is way too high its runs incredibly slowly. I recommend Bayesian filtering, see http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/ Bogofilter is yet another Eric S. Raymond associated project. -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
