[H-GEN] Experiences with SpamAssassin

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

| Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> writes:
| 
| > That's one way of putting it.  And note that those counts are
| > only the stuff that got delivered -- tons of it gets blocked
| > because of blacklists, etc., before the scum even get a chance
| > to talk to my smtp daemon.
| 
| I wonder if that could mean the blacklists are becoming less effective
| over time?

I suspect that black lists are losing their value, but I'd have
to do some work to extract the data from my logs that would
allow me to quantify that.  I'm not willing to do that.

Although I don't mind setting my machines to work for many hours
analysing spam-related stuff, I find that I'm not prepared to
put more than a small amount of my own time into it, as it just
gets under my skin that somehow the spammers are managing to
waste my time by yet another route.

Greg

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