RE: [OT] Spam FIREWALL software

[Dave Schneider]

Title: RE: [OT] Spam FIREWALL software

Thats several domains.. However, I currently use SA in conjunction with Modus3 , and our current reported false positive rate is about 1 per 700,000 emails.  (and thats not a very accurate rating as most of the time even the false positives reported are correctly marked as spam, they just happen to be ill written/formatted emails. We are leniant in our filters, as to try to maintain a very low/null FP rate. Current ratio is about 80-85% of all incoming msgs are captured/tagged as spam. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/24/2004 2:00 PM To: Dave Schneider; users@spamassassin.apache.org Cc: Subject: RE: [OT] Spam FIREWALL software At 02:47 PM 8/24/2004, Dave Schneider wrote: >Am I the only one that chokes on the "1 false positive out of 25000" ??!! >Thats like..hundreds an hour in my environments... >Ill stick to my schema.. Not to give any credit to their claims, but that's much lower than the claimed FP rate of SA 2.64's STATISTICS*.txt With a threshold of 5.0 and SA 2.64's corpus has between 0.07% (set0) and 0.04%(set3) FP rate. Theirs works out to 0.004% which is a factor-of-10 ahead of SA's claims. Admittedly SA is tweakable to reduce FP's considerably, but being a SA user the 1/25,000 FP rate doesn't choke me up at all. If it's true, it's quite impressive. Very few spamfilters can claim a FP rate anywhere near that low. I also find it impressive you're processing in excess of 2.5 million messages per hour with spamassassin. That's a very busy domain you have Dave.