Hi!
Okay, let me give you some real numbers from our inhouse mail for the last week.. As you can see, half the top rules are network tests, so people running without them (-L) are really missing out..
TOP SPAM RULES FIRED
RANK RULE NAME COUNT %OFRULES %OFMAIL %OFSPAM
1 URIBL_SBL 1739 6.66% 50.71% 85.04% 2 HTML_MESSAGE 1586 6.07% 46.25% 77.56% 3 URIBL_WS_SURBL 1447 5.54% 42.20% 70.76% 4 URIBL_JP_SURBL 1373 5.26% 40.04% 67.14% 5 URIBL_OB_SURBL 1364 5.22% 39.78% 66.70%
Ok, let me throw in some of todays stats:
SpamAssassin tag hits: (top 100) #1 138010 URIBL_WS_SURBL #2 136326 URIBL_JP_SURBL #3 133633 URIBL_SBL #4 121139 URIBL_OB_SURBL #5 110524 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET #6 102344 BAYES_99 #7 93535 HTML_MESSAGE #8 77539 URIBL_SC_SURBL #9 45440 MIME_HTML_ONLY #10 42655 URIBL_AB_SURBL #11 36296 MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER #12 34328 MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID #13 33857 RCVD_IN_XBL #14 32572 RCVD_IN_SBL #15 30595 RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY #16 30219 RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM #17 29376 RCVD_IN_DSBL #18 28708 URIBL_AH_DNSBL #19 27559 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL #20 25614 DRUGS_ERECTILE #21 23087 MPART_ALT_DIFF #22 22513 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL #23 21421 PROLO_STOCK_FWDLOOK #24 19968 MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS #25 18367 RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB
Spam found : 185036 (24.81%)
Has been worse, we have seen 40% at times.
Bye, Raymond.