----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sheldon" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: RE: Tired of Being Screwed By Cox (no pun intended) > > Spamassasin is nice, but does have a significant false-positive rate. Not been my experience at all. I am using 2.55 and I have seen only a very limited number of false positives (i.e. 3 or 4 for several hundred users). They have really, really done good work on the rules. > Since > it primarily filters on content, most legit commercial email (Order > receipts, order status messages, commercial mailing lists, etc.) get > "whacked" by it. Again, not in my experience. The rules are really smart - you have to match several conditions before being tagged as spam. > This means it really can only be used as a "tagging" agent, not as a means > to reject or discard mail. Which of course, means that you have to accept, > then hand filter through the trash. Nope, you can configure it to reject messages over a certain score (I use 10) if you use spamass-milter with it. > I love it for it's ability to prioritize > things for me, but it's not a true solution for spam. I dunno - my clients are absolutely tickled to death with it, and I wouldn't trade it for all the donuts out there. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200