Re: [exim] My DNS Spam and White Lists are Ready for Testing

Ian Eiloart wrote:

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> --On 22 July 2006 20:23:32 +0800 W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
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>> No point seen in looking at a 'yellow' list, of servers that sometimes
>> send spam and sometimes do not. By definition, that should be most of
>> the world.
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> Yes, but knowing that a host has been seen sending good email is useful
> information - it might make you less likely to reject.
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> Perhaps more useful for bayesian analysis would be a result that encoded
> the proportion of seen mail that was ranked as spam. For example,
> returning an IP address 127.0.0.xxx where xxx varied from 0 for no spam
> to 255 for no ham.
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Bayesian pays its dues on a per-account MUA.

We had not found it worth the electricity on a multi-user, multi-domain server.

OTOH, given that we typically do 80-85% of our rejection before even calling a
stripped-down SpamAssassin, there wouldn't be much left for Bayes to analyze
even if we still ran it.

Bill