Re: Which spam filter do you use?
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On Friday, October 5 at 05:14 PM, quoth Holger Weiss:
>> As for impact, it chunks through on the order of 5000 emails a day,
>> of which over 86% is spam (according to my logs), and I think the
>> last time I got a message that was incorrectly classified was
>> probably... maybe a week ago, or so.
>
> So you get about 1 out of 35.000 messages misclassified (which would be
> an accuracy of about 99.997%)? I cannot quite believe that :-) In any
> case, it does sound as if you do get significantly better results out of
> SpamAssassin than I ever did, despite a lot of tweaking I tried.
Well, the twist to that statistic is that not all 5000 of those emails
are for *me*. I'm only one of the users on my system that uses SA
(though I'm certainly the biggest user of email on the system). Based
on yesterday's logs, I personally get around 10,521 emails (including
spam) a week. Assuming an oversized fudge factor of maybe ten
misclassified messages that I either didn't notice or don't remember,
that puts my accuracy around 99.9%.
I think this really does, though, boil down to: different filters do
better for different people.
~Kyle
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