[Spamassassin Wiki] Update of "ChooseYourRules" by IanEiloart

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The comment on this change is: Move the one listed script that's still available into StatsAndAnalyzers, and link there..
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ChooseYourRules?action=diff&rev1=4&rev2=5

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  Everyone's spam is different. What rules and plug-ins work for one installation may not work for yours.  There can also be significant performance penalties for using some rules.
  
- One way to more about how your installation is working is to check you logs and see what rules are hitting on your spam, and what rules are not. This way you can see which rules are the most productive for your spam. Some scripts to run against your logs are,
+ One way to more about how your installation is working is to check you logs and see what rules are hitting on your spam, and what rules are not. This way you can see which rules are the most productive for your spam. Some scripts to run against your logs are listed at [[StatsAndAnalyzers]]
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-  * [[http://web.archive.org/web/20041211041335/http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=MikesStatScript|Mike's Stat Script]]
-    * This script is quite old, doesn't use strict, and is reported to just plain not work.  It is also no longer available from the original source.  However, it was rewritten at [[http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=473729|Perl Monk's rewrite of Mike's Stat Script]]
-  * [[http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats.txt|sa-stats.pl pre SA version 3.1]]
-  * [[http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats-1.0.txt|sa-stats.pl post SA version 3.1]]
  
  Using scripts such as these to analyze your logs, you can see which rules and plug-ins are working best for your installation.  Some installations have chosen to avoid Bayes, DCC, Vipul's Razor and use URI Blacklist tests such as SURBL and URIBL combined with a few custom rules developed in-house and by the [[http://rulesemporium.com|SARE Ninjas]] to save resources.  However, what works for another installation may not work for you!