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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Ralf Guenthner <gu...@alphatel.de> on 2004/07/09 09:46:03 UTC

SA vs. IMF?

Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote

> Can anyone here point to any good information on shootouts between 
> hardware firewalls (such as Barracuda's Spam Firewall 
> [http://www.barracudanetworks.com] or St Bernard's ePrism 
> [http://www.stbernard.com/products/eprism/products_eprism.asp]) and 
> SpamAssassin?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Roger

Speaking of competition to SA: Microsoft has released its IMF -for free- 
and now the admins at some other site I'm responsible for tout how it 
tagged "every single spam" that SA tagged and then some. Since this shop 
is totally MS-brainwashed I don't take them too seriously, or should I? 
So far they've not asked to turn off SA but they might...

Anyone have any experience with this so-called Intelligent Message 
Filter? I think it uses -surprise, surprise- a Bayes database too.

Regards
Ralf G.

Re: SA vs. IMF?

Posted by Satya <sa...@thesatya.com>.

On Jul 9, 2004 at 09:46, Ralf Guenthner wrote:

>and now the admins at some other site I'm responsible for tout how it
>tagged "every single spam" that SA tagged and then some. Since this shop
>is totally MS-brainwashed I don't take them too seriously, or should I?
>So far they've not asked to turn off SA but they might...

I'd be asking about its false-positive rate. No one seems to mention
that when they say "our spam filter is 100% effective at blocking spam
from your inbox" or whatever.

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