>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary Funck [mailto:gary@intrepid.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:30 PM
>To: SURBL Discussion List (E-mail); Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)
>Subject: RE: quick poll on SURBL hit %
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Santerre [mailto:csanterre@MerchantsOverseas.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:16 AM
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>> Just curious as to what average percent of spam people see SURBL
>> hitting. In
>> a non scientific manor, I average about 85% or greater hitting
>> SURBL for all
>> spam that doesn't get rejected by my MTA. I have a feeling if I
>> clean up my
>> results a bit, that number would be even higher.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Santerre [mailto:csanterre@MerchantsOverseas.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:16 AM
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>> Just curious as to what average percent of spam people see SURBL
>> hitting. In
>> a non scientific manor, I average about 85% or greater hitting
>> SURBL for all
>> spam that doesn't get rejected by my MTA. I have a feeling if I
>> clean up my
>> results a bit, that number would be even higher.
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>Very anecdotal, but of the last 20 messages scored as spam,
>only 1 of them
>did not hit on any SURBL's. On a daily basis about 2 or 3 per
>user, out
>of an average of 200 to 300 non-spam messages delivered, were
>diagnosed as
>non-spam, and were not registered in the SURBL when
>delievered, but when
>manually checked later, their offending URL's had been registered in at
>least one, and often several, SURBL's. SURBL's are definitely
>workling.
Nice. Ryans numbers look good as well. I think Jeff's magic threshold number
was 88%? Our response times are getting really good. I've had numerous
submissions that trigger on SURBL!
We've got some ideas for that last 10-12% ;)
--Chris