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Re: ISPs Wrongly Block 1 in 8 Messages for Spam |
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From: |
J C Lawrence <claw @
kanga .
nu> |
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Date: |
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:13:25 -0800 |
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To: |
Sean Brunnock <brunnock @
server .
com> |
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Cc: |
"list-managers" <list-managers @
greatcircle .
com> |
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Message from Sean Brunnock <brunnock@server.com> of "Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:57:14 EST." <5.0.2.1.2.20021031063759.01d2e6e0@mail.earthlink.net> |
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<JCEAKIGPHKDGFFDLONKFIEJHHGAA.rich@ChristianityToday.com> <JCEAKIGPHKDGFFDLONKFCEDNHGAA.rich@ChristianityToday.com> <5.0.2.1.2.20021031063759.01d2e6e0@mail.earthlink.net> |
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:57:14 -0500
Sean Brunnock <brunnock@server.com> wrote:
> At 02:14 AM 10/31/02, Nick Simicich wrote:
> Many of our newsletters are blocked by SpamAssassin. For example, a
> french soccer newsletter was bounced today because SpamAssassin
> determined that it contained porn. You can see the newsletter here-
> http://server.com/WebApps/mail-list-archive.cgi?id=12603;date=2002-10-30
> . I don't think that SpamAssassin is sophisticated enough to
> determine the content of a message written in a foreign language.
This is a rather useless aspersion without the specifics on:
-- What version of SpamAssassin
-- How SpamAssassin was configured (minimum score, active recipes,
etc)
-- What score SpamAssassin assigned to the message, and what the
constituent scores were that lead to that.
> People love and praise SpamAssassin, but I think it just arbitrarily
> blocks all bulk mail.
No, it blocks on the basis of cumulative score, with scores assigned by
matching recipes. Of course that means that its only as good and as
accurate as the accuracy distribution of its recipes and score
assignments, but for English language mail its accurate out of a few
sigmas.
> For the record, I use the BrightMail service provided by Earthlink and
> it's been doing a great job for me. It blocks most of my spam but
> doesn't block any of my newsletters.
I run SpamAssassin upstream of TMDA with SpamAssassin doing nothing but
adding flag headers. Suffice to say that its been over four months
since I've had a false positive from SpamAssassin.
Version: 2.43
required_hits 5
auto_report_threshold 30
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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