RE: quick poll on SURBL hit % - Discuss

5 Jan 2005


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-----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
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
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.
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