Darxus

spam is my bitch

darxus

10/28/05 03:19 pm

On an average day, 3,117.88 spams + viruses are sent to me.

1.60 are only caught by one of my spam filters so I feel a need to check for false positives.

0.27 make it to my inbox.

In order of decending wonderfulness:

Yes spamprobe is definitely better than spamassassin, and it's pure (multi-word) bayesian.

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nchanter
10/28/05 07:55 pm (UTC)

so every 4 days or so a spam makes it into your inbox?
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- darxus
  10/28/05 07:57 pm (UTC)
  
  Right.
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lady_anemone
10/28/05 08:05 pm (UTC)

Is greylisting something you can only do from the admin side?
I know that my mail client has spamassassin, I'm not sure about greylisting. It sounds like a good approach though.
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- darxus
  10/28/05 08:07 pm (UTC)
  
  Yes.
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metahacker
10/28/05 08:14 pm (UTC)

Ah, but what's your false positive rate?

I recently went from roughly 0.5 to about 6, because I was geting roughly a 1 false positive rate -- one content-ful email in my junk folder per day -- which was awful. Now the false positive rate is indistinguishable from 0, but the false negatives are up to 6, above.
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- darxus
  10/28/05 08:22 pm (UTC)
  
  I basically don't get any.
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- darkspur
  10/30/05 04:02 pm (UTC)
  
  its been over a year since i last checked my spam box for false positives. i think i just pretty much dont care anymore.
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  - metahacker
    10/30/05 04:19 pm (UTC)
    
    Yeah, that works until you get some service cancelled or have relatives threaten to disown you because you don't answer email. Some people consider email delivery guaranteed, and act that way; I've done my best to disabuse people of this notion, but it persists, and it's getting worse; many places are trying to sign me up for "email delivery only" of important documents, and I have to keep telling them NO.
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    - darkspur
      10/30/05 04:34 pm (UTC)
      
      i hear ya, and that worry is sometimes in the back of my mind.. but generally i am just too lazy :)
      
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darkspur
10/30/05 04:03 pm (UTC)

thanks again for your past quick setup guide type writings on stopping spam. using those three, i pretty much never get any crap anymore. or maybe someone got word that my junk doesn't need enlarging.
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