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05/09/2005 Archived Entry: "This Weekend's Spam Assassin Report"

This weekend, I didn't check my email at all; I just let it sit and stew on the server. This morning, I thought I'd provide you with some interesting statistics on how the MIS Spam Assassin worked. I have my junk mail filtered to a special folder, so everything that's marked as junk goes there, and I can look through it quickly to see if anything legit got mis-tagged. My Spam Assasssin threshold is set at 2.9.

This morning, I had 139 total messages.
Of those, eight made it to my in-box.
Of those eight, six were junk.
Of the 131 that were in the junk folder, 100% were junk. No legit messages were tagged as junk.

So the Spam Assassin missed six pieces of junk out of 139 total messages. That's about a 96% effective rate. That's a lot better than AOL's reporting of reducing junk for their users my 75%.

Midcoast Internet's Spam Assassin. It's free. It works.