[SURBL-Discuss] Re: New SURBL additions

Chris Santerre csanterre at merchantsoverseas.com
Tue Jul 6 11:35:20 CEST 2004



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc at surbl.org]
>Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 4:55 AM
>To: SURBL Discussion list; SpamAssassin Users List
>Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: New SURBL additions
>
>
>On Friday, July 2, 2004, 6:06:16 AM, Don Newcomer wrote:
>> Here are my counts since 6:50 PM yesterday for all URI_RBL 
>rules sorted by
>> spam and ham:
>
>> URI_RBL spam counts:
>
>>  3577 - AB_URI_RBL (5.0) - surbl.cf
>>  2499 - DS_URI_RBL (0.33) - surbl.cf
>>  7282 - OB_URI_RBL (4.0) - surbl.cf
>>  4279 - SPAMCOP_URI_RBL (3.0) - surbl.cf
>>  5458 - WS_URI_RBL (3.0) - surbl.cf
>
>> URI_RBL ham counts:
>
>>   231 - DS_URI_RBL (0.33) - surbl.cf
>>    18 - OB_URI_RBL (4.0) - surbl.cf
>>     1 - SPAMCOP_URI_RBL (3.0) - surbl.cf
>>    29 - WS_URI_RBL (3.0) - surbl.cf
>
>> Interesting that AB_URI_RBL has no false positives yet...  Still, we
>> haven't released spam filtering to our users yet so my Bayes 
>training is
>> based pretty much on all of the SA rulesets' interpretation 
>of spam (which
>> isn't necessarily a bad thing).
>
>Thanks much for the data Don, particularly the false positive
>hits.  Does anyone else have any to share?   If so please post
>them here.
>
>ab.surbl.org is based on SpamCop data plus some manual reports,
>as is sc.surbl.org, but ab has a different inclusion criteria
>of taking the top 500 most often reported (less www. duplicates
>and whitelists hits) over 7 days, whereas sc has an arbitrary
>inclusion threshold of 10 reports over 4 days.  1 FP for sc
>is pretty good, though zero is better.  :-)
>
>ob is pretty impressive in terms of hit rate and relatively
>low FP rate, at least as a percentage of hits.
>
>Note that ds.surbl.org (based on 6dos data) is now up on 5 name
>servers so it may be ok to use on production servers for beta
>testing.
>
>Please note that I probably won't be able to check email for
>about a week so hopefully others will help answer SURBL
>questions, etc.
>

Please email me ANY FPs found in the ds.surbl.org list. I realy real realy
want to clean it up. I'm working with the source to get it better. Even
though the % isn't high. 99.99 percent accuracy is better ;)

--Chris


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