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Seven Spam Filters Compared

Posted by timothy on from the spam-is-evil dept.

Goo.cc writes "Those wondering how their spam filtering software performs in comparison to other's may want to read this article on Freshmeat, where Sam Holden performs comparative testing of various popular e-mail filters. The filters tested includes Bayesian Mail Filter, Bogofilter, dbacl, Quick Spam Filter, SpamAssassin, SpamProbe, and SPASTIC."

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  1. Re:Meanwhile, I'm still waiting on the real spam n by Neophytus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, I cann't reach either caldera.com or sco.com.
    Tracing route to caldera.com [216.250.140.125]
    over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
    2 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms 10.124.0.1
    3 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms gsr01-ed.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.64.33]
    4 21 ms 21 ms 22 ms gat-edi-pos.telewest.net [194.117.136.10]
    5 22 ms 27 ms 22 ms tele2-gat-pos.telewest.net [194.117.136.6]
    6 28 ms 21 ms 21 ms pos5-hsd-gsr1-linx.cableinet.net [194.117.154.18
    9]
    7 27 ms 21 ms 21 ms 195.50.116.173
    8 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms so-1-3-0.gar1.London1.level3.net [212.113.3.25]

    9 26 ms 22 ms 21 ms so-7-0-0.mp1.London1.Level3.net [212.113.3.1]
    10 20 ms 25 ms 21 ms so-1-0-0.mp1.London2.Level3.net [212.187.128.49]

    11 94 ms 94 ms 94 ms so-1-0-0.bbr1.Washington1.level3.net [212.187.12
    8.138]
    12 134 ms 152 ms 136 ms so-3-0-0.mp1.Denver1.Level3.net [64.159.1.113]
    13 * gigabitethernet10-0.hsipaccess2.Denver1.Level3.ne t [64.159.3.122]
    reports: Destination host unreachable.

    Trace complete.