Cliff Frost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hasn't anyone else noticed a drastic reduction in spam?
I sure have.
Thanks for reminding me; I meant to comment on this before.
In recent months I could count on Thunderbird's Bayesian
filters tagging
200-250 spam messages per day in my two inboxes, with about
30-40
false-negatives. In the past week, the number has been
around 20-30
tagged messages, with fewer than 10 false-negatives--about
an order of
magnitude decrease.
I think I can work to get the number down on my end even
more. Some of
the smaller secondary servers we use in the network
infrastructure are
doing much the same as what calmail is doing
(ClamAV+greylisting+spamhaus), but we only query the
spamhaus SBL+XBL
and not the PBL. Calmail does all three. In examining some
of the spam
that still makes it through, it's largely from the secondary
servers and
I think that adding the PBL would cut that down even more.
Frankly, I am pleasantly shocked at how much better things
are now. I
knew it would be better, but I didn't realize how much
better.
Thanks to Paul and Jim for all of the fine work.
michael
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