Re: And so it begins...

Since implementing our Barracuda spam filter over two months ago, we've had
a total of 3 false positives. Baysian filters work.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                           
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I give them only a couple weeks before they drop this. This causes more
headaches than it fixes. If you ask me, a good (or well trained rather)
Baysian filter is the best solution to spam. On my old PC with SpamBayes it

caught about 99% of my spam with less than 1% false positives.These numbers

are guesses. I had maybe 1 or 2 false postives a month at most.

On Apr 12, 2005 8:36 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Okay, here's a new twist on the blacklist/whitelist concept.
>
> I just sent an email to someone. It didn't get through because the
> recipient's ISP blocked it. Why? Because it didn't recognize me as an
> ISP. That is, this service no longer accepts mail from "end user"
> accounts, which pretty much includes anybody running their own SMTP
> server over a DSL line. They give you a number of options, including
> rerouting your mail through your ISP, or getting your ISP to change the
> PTR record for your DSL address. Otherwise, the user has to turn off
> spam filtering. As far as I can tell, this is purely a blacklist
> approach, with no ability to whitelist a domain. So any small business
> running their own SMTP server over a DSL line is subject to this kind of
> blacklisting.
>
> Is this a sign of things to come?
>
> Joe
>
> More info: http://www.korax.net/info/mail_reject.phtml
>
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