>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:58 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Bit OT but it's about SPAM >> >> On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might be >> > interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has now >> > reached being 95% of all email. >> >> This is hyperbole. >> >> What it really means is that 95% of the mail processed by someone's >> commercial spam filter has been classified, possibly incorrectly, as >> spam. The rates are much lower (though still too high for comfort) if >> false positives are accounted for. >> >> See, for example: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.14617
Ok.. so in reality, it's more like 80-85% no matter how you dice it ... still way too much... :\
