> > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 11:35 am, Bret Miller wrote: > > > Has anyone here tried MSRBL (http://www.msrbl.com/site/)? > I'm running it > > > in trial now, but thought I'd ask to see if anyone here > had an opinion > > > before doing anything serious with it. > > > > > > TIA, > > > Bret > > > > Bret, on my home system I use the MSRBL-Images.hdb and > MSRBL-Spam.ndb in > > conjunction with Clamav. I have some stats if you're interested. > > > > > I'd like to see some stats, please. > I'd also like to hear some opinions on FP numbers, effectiveness etc.
I installed the MSRBL ClamAV signatures yesterday for a trial run, not actually doing anything with the results. It hit less spam than I hoped and had a few FPs. The FPs were all advertising e-mail, but very clearly from my standpoint were opt-in lists that were very easy to opt-out of, and could have been valuable to someone. My guess here is that MSRBL works a lot like SpamCop.net and relies on user submission to determine what is and isn't spam. That approach can't be relied upon for mail rejection. I didn't see anything that it hit on that SA wasn't already catching, so I'm really not convinced it's worth the effort to do. Bret
