At 6/25/2004, you wrote:
What lists did you tst, and in what way? I think quantity should not matter, but quality does. Overhere its catching up 73% of my spam, i dont see any other RBL doing that currently.
Which lists are you checking against? I'm getting between a 10% and 20% catch rate. If I change my code to check both the domain and the IP address for each domain, that goes up to around 30%.
I added code that allows me to add my own domains and IP's to a private blacklist. After adding about 100 or so to the private blacklist, I find that the catch rates goes up to 60%. I added another 300 to my private blacklist last night and its up to around 90%, but I did get 3 false positives last night.
For my testing I'm simply adding an X-SPAM header and I'm only running it against my own personal domain, none of my clients.
--Dave
On Friday, June 25, 2004, 2:52:12 PM, Dave Navarro wrote:
At 6/25/2004, you wrote:
What lists did you tst, and in what way? I think quantity should not matter, but quality does. Overhere its catching up 73% of my spam, i dont see any other RBL doing that currently.
Which lists are you checking against? I'm getting between a 10% and 20% catch rate. If I change my code to check both the domain and the IP address for each domain, that goes up to around 30%.
I added code that allows me to add my own domains and IP's to a private blacklist. After adding about 100 or so to the private blacklist, I find that the catch rates goes up to 60%. I added another 300 to my private blacklist last night and its up to around 90%, but I did get 3 false positives last night.
For my testing I'm simply adding an X-SPAM header and I'm only running it against my own personal domain, none of my clients.
Dave, You don't mention which of the several SURBL lists you were using, but the larger lists such as ws and ob were themselves hitting 60-70% of spams in test corpora.
That said, if you are confident enough in your manual entries that they could be used by people to actually block messages on production mail servers, you may want to share them with us so we can put them into ws.surbl.org. The best way to do that would probably be to mail them to Chris, Bill or me. I'd request that you check them over thoroughly before sending. We'd probably check them against all of our existing lists also to see which ones are unique.
Jeff C.
Hi!
What lists did you tst, and in what way? I think quantity should not matter, but quality does. Overhere its catching up 73% of my spam, i dont see any other RBL doing that currently.
Which lists are you checking against? I'm getting between a 10% and 20% catch rate. If I change my code to check both the domain and the IP address for each domain, that goes up to around 30%.
Various lists. DSBL, AHBL, XBL, SPAMCOP, SPAMHAUS and a couple more.
I added code that allows me to add my own domains and IP's to a private blacklist. After adding about 100 or so to the private blacklist, I find that the catch rates goes up to 60%. I added another 300 to my private blacklist last night and its up to around 90%, but I did get 3 false positives last night.
You might want to mail those to WS/SA to get them verified and perhaps added.
For my testing I'm simply adding an X-SPAM header and I'm only running it against my own personal domain, none of my clients.
Whats the spamrate you get on your domains anyway? And your mailvolume? We check around 2.500.000 messages daily currently. Hitrates are also depending on the type of domains and the number of users you have. And, not important also, how 'old' the domains are. The older the more spam CD's carry your crap :)
Bye, Raymond.
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