"I like the line "...said Reutty was 'more interested in protecting her library than helping the police."
from what ? spurious argument just to make Reutty appear unhelpful.
Well yes and no! I have to filter for about 3000 people from a variety of areas such as IT, Social Services, Criminal Justice etc etc. They're allowed to use email for personal use, they're allowed to sign up to dodgy mailing lists, they're pretty much allowed to send and receive anything they want via email. SpamAssassin does a fairly good job but fails to hit this magic 95% that everyone talks about, mainly because of the amount of emails that talk about sex, dating, buy this, buy that crap that they use email to talk about. Probably, with training, it would beat Mailsweeper which is our current content analyser but I have to justify it to my boss, train other members of the team to use it, train our users how to set up filters etc etc. In time, i suspect that i will end up using a combination of products but right now, anything above 85% detection and a low false positive rate is pretty good i reckon.
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"I like the line "...said Reutty was 'more interested in protecting her library than helping the police." from what ? spurious argument just to make Reutty appear unhelpful.
Well yes and no! I have to filter for about 3000 people from a variety of areas such as IT, Social Services, Criminal Justice etc etc. They're allowed to use email for personal use, they're allowed to sign up to dodgy mailing lists, they're pretty much allowed to send and receive anything they want via email. SpamAssassin does a fairly good job but fails to hit this magic 95% that everyone talks about, mainly because of the amount of emails that talk about sex, dating, buy this, buy that crap that they use email to talk about. Probably, with training, it would beat Mailsweeper which is our current content analyser but I have to justify it to my boss, train other members of the team to use it, train our users how to set up filters etc etc. In time, i suspect that i will end up using a combination of products but right now, anything above 85% detection and a low false positive rate is pretty good i reckon.