blacklisting by SORBS

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 12:29:05 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 06:56, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

> Unfortunately SpamAssassin's default scores are absolutely meaningless
> in this regard. The people behind it are good coders but have shown
> little understanding of statistics and abuse the scoring system as a
> catch all facility.
> 
> What I am trying to say is, that for example about 90% of the messages
> from a dynamic IP are spam which in turn means that each message
> matching this criteria has a probability of about 90% of being spam.

That might be true for you, but would be highly variable for others.
If you typically correspond with people who run servers in their
homes you would see a lot more non-spam email coming from dynamic
IPs. 

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com





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