[SURBL-Discuss] quick poll on SURBL hit %

Matt Egan (hotmail) mattegan_public at hotmail.com
Thu Jan 6 05:37:50 CET 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Egan (hotmail)" <mattegan_public at hotmail.com>
To: "SURBL Discussion list" <discuss at lists.surbl.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] quick poll on SURBL hit %


[...]

Just more info, on the frontend I block clients listed on sbl-xbl.spamhaus
and combined.njabl. I also greylist unknown hostname and generic looking
hostnames '(dsl|cable|dialup)". The use of the RBL is probably note unique
but the greylisting of certain clients might be something that not many
others do which might explain some of the differences in our numbers. (it is
very effective)

Also i left out the mail totals:

Totals:
------- 
42209 : Mails
        thereof
           79 : INFECTED (1 tenth of 1 percent)
         1121 : SPAM Blocked (2.6 %)
          297 : SPAM Tagged (7 tenths of 1 percent)
        40712 : clean

        Average Score
        SPAM Blocked: 16.05
        SPAM Tagged :  5.78

In this same time period

    Client host rejected: Greylisted... Try back after 357 seconds. (top 10
of total: 4839)
        (I don't know how many retried my guess is 75% of these never came
back).
         171   attbi.com
         107   comcast.net
          98   ameritech.net
          93   pacbell.net
          81   charter.com
          78   swbell.net
          75   dsl-verizon.net
          49   mindspring.com
          45   verizon.net
          39   rr.com
    blocked using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org (top 10 of total: 4648)
         198   comcast.net
         113   rr.com
          88   ameritech.net
          79   charter.com
          79   villner.com
          74   pacbell.net
          73   dsl-verizon.net
          71   attbi.com
          63   ohthatsfunny.com
          63   swbell.net
    blocked using combined.njabl.org (top 10 of total: 917)
          92   comcast.net
          57   rr.com
          51   attbi.com
          35   bellsouth.net
          33   t-dialin.net
          31   swbell.net
          22   ameritech.net
          16   rima-tde.net
          15   adelphia.net
          13   auna.net

[...]
> Ranking of Tests in Blocked Spam: ( 1121 Blocked )
> --------------------------------------------------  (top 30 of 715 rules
> triggered)
>           % 76.8         861 : HTML_MESSAGE
>           % 52.3         586 : MIME_HTML_ONLY
>           % 41.7         467 : URIBL_SBL
>           % 25.2         282 : URIBL_WS_SURBL
>           % 23.0         258 : MPART_ALT_DIFF
>           % 21.4         240 : URIBL_OB_SURBL
>           % 17.8         199 : RATWARE_ZERO_TZ
>           % 17.7         198 : HTML_90_100
>           % 17.6         197 : URIBL_JP_SURBL
>           % 16.8         188 : DRUGS_ERECTILE
>           % 16.1         180 : MIME_BASE64_TEXT
>           % 16.1         180 : SARE_MULT_RATW_02
>           % 14.8         166 : MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID
>           % 14.0         157 : MIME_BOUND_DD_DIGITS
>           % 13.2         148 : MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI
>           % 12.8         143 : AWL
>           % 12.3         138 : HTML_40_50
>           % 12.0         135 : BIZ_TLD
>           % 12.0         134 : URIBL_SC_SURBL
>           % 11.6         130 : HTML_30_40
>           % 10.8         121 : HTML_FONT_BIG
>           % 10.2         114 : DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU
>           % 10.2         114 : X_MESSAGE_INFO
>           % 10.1         113 : DRUGS_PAIN
>           % 9.8  110 : LONGWORDS
>           % 9.3  104 : BAYES_99
>           % 9.2  103 : RCVD_BY_IP
>           % 8.8  99 : HTML_TEXT_AFTER_BODY
>           % 8.7  98 : MIME_QP_LONG_LINE
>           % 8.4  94 : HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02
>
>
> Ranking of Tests in Tagged Spam: ( 297 Tagged )
> -----------------------------------------------  (top 30 of 322 rules
> triggered)
>           % 65.3         194 : HTML_MESSAGE
>           % 37.0         110 : MIME_HTML_ONLY
>           % 36.7         109 : URIBL_SBL
>           % 25.6         76 : AWL
>           % 25.3         75 : HTML_90_100
>           % 15.5         46 : HTML_TEXT_AFTER_BODY
>           % 15.2         45 : HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02
>           % 13.8         41 : HTML_TEXT_AFTER_HTML
>           % 12.5         37 : MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID
>           % 11.8         35 : HTML_FONT_BIG
>           % 9.8  29 : HTML_80_90
>           % 8.8  26 : TO_ADDRESS_EQ_REAL
>           % 7.7  23 : MIME_QP_LONG_LINE
>           % 7.4  22 : BAYES_50
>           % 7.4  22 : MPART_ALT_DIFF
>           % 7.1  21 : URIBL_WS_SURBL
>           % 6.4  19 : HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY
>           % 6.1  18 : HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16
>           % 5.1  15 : HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20
>           % 5.1  15 : FORGED_RCVD_HELO
>           % 4.7  14 : NO_REAL_NAME
>           % 4.4  13 : HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_12
>           % 4.4  13 : SARE_HTML_HTML_AFTER
>           % 4.4  13 : HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2
>           % 4.0  12 : MIME_HTML_MOSTLY
>           % 4.0  12 : RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO
>           % 3.7  11 : DOMAIN_RATIO
>           % 3.7  11 : DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24
>           % 3.4  10 : HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG
>           % 3.4  10 : MIME_BASE64_TEXT
>
>
> -Matt
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