Statistics

[Josh Dayberry <sp...@thematthewsgroup.com>]

I am not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I was curious about
the frequency each test identified spam so I ran some numbers and I got the
following.  I was trying to determine if I should continue to run dcc, razor
and pyzor.

The 'mails' column is the total number of spam caught.  The number under
each of the 4 tests is the percent of the total spam which was caught by
that particular test.  Do these numbers seem accurate?  I don't run a very
busy mail server, but have had a great deal of success with spamassassin.  I
believe I have filtered 99.99% of spam.  I would appreciate some feedback on
the stats I have produced and your opinions of the value of using dcc, razor
and pyzor.

               Mails  Bayes                Dcc                   Razor
Pyzor
 Feb  29  1339  1134 (84.69%)  929 (69.38%)    560 (41.82%)     595 (44.44%)
 Feb  22  3748  3216 (85.81%) 2515 (67.10%)  1394 (37.19%)   1810 (48.29%)
 Feb  15  2942  2514 (85.45%) 1980 (67.30%)  1364 (46.36%)   1394 (47.38%)

Josh

Re: Statistics

[Steve <sd...@usnetworksinc.com>]

Josh Dayberry <spam <at> thematthewsgroup.com> writes:

>                Mails  Bayes                Dcc                   Razor
> Pyzor
>  Feb  29  1339  1134 (84.69%)  929 (69.38%)    560 (41.82%)     595 (44.44%)
>  Feb  22  3748  3216 (85.81%) 2515 (67.10%)  1394 (37.19%)   1810 (48.29%)
>  Feb  15  2942  2514 (85.45%) 1980 (67.30%)  1364 (46.36%)   1394 (47.38%)
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> 


Josh,


I'm wanting to do the same thing you did. Look at the diffrent percents each 
test got.   How did you get the above results?

Thanks for your help,
Steve