Re: PERSONAL LOAN - KTA
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 21:26:24 -0400, Roberto wrote in message
<20070602012624.GF23764@miami.connexer.com>:
> More recently this discussion came up on debian-user [1]:
>
> All the rest of the numbers are for March:
> CrossAssassin: 7375
> SpamAssassin: 4672
> Other filters: 333
> -> subtotal: 12380
> Total blocked spam: ~37700
>
> Actual messages pushed through the list: 3404
>
> ...
>
> I went through the archive for March, and pulled out the numbers. I
> found 25 spam messages, which leaves us with 3379 valid messages.
>
> ...
>
> 25/37700 works out to be 0.066% of spam not being blocked.
>
> Again, those are the words of Pascal Hakim, one of the list masters.
> So, the short version is that you bet that all of the mail that actually
> gets through to Debian mailing lists represents less than 10% of the
> mail that arrives at the Debian mailing list server. Considering the
> astonishing amount of spam that gets blocked, I say that they have done
> outstanding job.
>
> Besides, when there are obvious attacks (like spams start flooding into
> the BTS or onto the lists that have managed to get past the filters, the
> list masters jump into action and modify the filters to catch the new
> spam flood.
>
> Does your mail server perform better than allowing 0.066% of spam
> through for a comparable level of traffic? I know mine doesn't. I'd
> love it if my filters were even half as effective as those on the Debian
> mail servers.
..aye, and you might have considered working on them rather than
engage me in flame wars on debian-user this same March. ;o)
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/07/msg00013.html
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00723.html
..but new eyes may see new things. Go ahead. :o)
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