[Gllug] Re: www.spews.org - spamming blacklist

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:18, Nix wrote:
> On 03 Jun 2003, Mike Brodbelt spake:
> > SpamAssassin demonstrates quite well that netblock lookups are an
> > unnecessary blunt instrument. Content based filtering and Bayesian
> > analysis can remove spam more effectively
> 
> Actually it demonstrates the exact opposite. Using the statistics from
> the last GA run in March (for SA 2.54, IIRC):

Still more effective than just relying on SPEWS :-)

Where you've made a choice to use blacklists as part of a scoring
system, in conjunction with other methods (content analysis, bayesian
analysis), you're using a much more finely grained instrument than just
relying on a blacklist. It's the blunt instrument approach of the
blacklists that I really object to - when used as part of a system,
rather than just relied on absolutely, they lose most of their
offensiveness and actually become far more useful.

I defy you to get better results from anything by just adding SPEWS to
it, though :-))

Mike.


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