On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 10:01:36PM -0400, Jay Swackhamer wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > My DSL ISP (aka "the phone company") now offers Brightmail-based spam > > filtering. It caught 8 of the 12 spam messages I've received since it > > was activated (SA caught all 4 of the rest, plus an Outpost.com mailer > > that scored 14.5 -- I'd add them to my whitelist but I'm too > > interested in seeing what score they're going to rack up next). > > Interesting... > > I have a few users whose dialup ISPs also use Brightmail. They > commented how Spamassassin works *better* than Brightmail, which seems > to block legitimate mail. They also mentioned Brightmail offers no way > to retrieve blocked mail (at least, their ISP doesn't offer that...) > > *Very* happy with SA.
My work has been using Brightmail since before I setup SA for our neck of the woods. I haven't collected stats, but Brightmail probably catches around half the SPAM, and SA catches the rest. There is simply no comparison between the two, *BUT* I'm sure I could spin up some stats using procmail and rrdtool if I had to. Pretty graphs about how effective SA is would look pretty on my web site ;) -- "The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language." - Ron Sercely.
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