On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:58:23 -0700 "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might > > be interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has > > now reached being 95% of all email. > > This is hyperbole. > > What it really means is that 95% of the mail processed by > someone's commercial spam filter has been classified, possibly > incorrectly, as spam. The rates are much lower (though still too > high for comfort) if false positives are accounted for. > > See, for example: > http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.14617 > According to my server's stats: 91.19% of all mail is rejected at the MTA 92.97% of all mail is discarded at the MTA or marked as SPAM by Spamassassin -- Raquel ============================================================ Not only are we to help in time of trouble, but we are actually obligated to take steps to prevent physical harm from coming to a neighbor and his livestock. --Robert J. Matthews, "What 'Loving Your Neighbor' Really Means,"
