Tired of Being Screwed By Cox (no pun intended)

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Sheldon" <msheldon@desertraven.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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.

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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
http://www.camerontech.com/
(512) 454-3200