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Re: [OT] Sendmail vs. Exim, and SMTP Advice



On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:15:14AM -0400, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> Treating BCCed mail as junk doesn't guarantee no false positives, and
> doesn't catch most of the new breed SPAM.  If you ask me, template
> scanners are the most powerful anti-SPAM tool available that can
> guarantee zero false positives.  If you have spamcatcher addys, you can

With the minor caveat that your system currently has about a 50% False
Negative score :)

I'll throw in my hat for CRM114, BTW.  You can see its sucess on my system
at 
http://www.inorganic.org/~rsr/crm_success.txt

which is updated hourly.  Summary: Deployed for 82 days.  History for these
82 days: 99.45% accuracy, with 99.72% false positive avoidance and 99.74%
false negative avoidance.  Now that I've been training it well, I believe
the last 30 days are more representative of what it's capable of -- 16,920
messages, 2477 tagged as spam.  99.935% FP avoidance and 99.9% FN
avoidance. 

All with incredibly minimal hassle setting up and maintaining.

-roy