Re: [9fans] tactic

[Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>]

First, don't get me wrong: I'm NOT a spamassassin fan, BUT ...
it's the best I've seen, and I've got ~80 people to keep happy.

> I find that spamassassin sucked rocks for filtering my email.

Yeah, it probably did: I've never tried it but
I'm sure it's uneconomical for small workloads.

> I am currently using CRM114: http://crm114.sourceforge.net/

Nice, but ...

> The drawback is that you have to train it before it works very
> well.  In the beginning it's about 50%, but after the first week
> or two it has been well above 98% for me.

And most of the usage I've seen has been on small,
low-volume connections.
i.e. even more than spamassassin it probably works better
in single-mbox situations.

OTOH out-of-the-box spamassassin does~~~80%,
and we've got it up to ~96% (one server for all 80 people),
which is deemed acceptable by the powers that be.

If I tuned it a bit more wrt rbls etc. & did the
per-user profile stuff I'm sure I could hit 99%.
(The only negative there is that the per-user stuff is
 vulnerable to forgery:-(.)

>   It usually miss classifies
> a few messages out of about 150+/day for me.  I should note that
> 3/4 of my email is actually SPAM, so I'm pretty happy with it.

Strangely, we're only getting ~55% crap at the moment.
Maybe 'cos I bounce (not can) spam?

Back to plan9 programming ...,
	Dave.