[SC-Help] Re: Spammers getting smarter?

[Geoff Lane]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in news:cubk8p$9j7$1
@news.spamcop.net:

> And, what I would do about it would be to configure my SP so that it was
> 'never' [almost never?] giving me false positives.

Tried that, been there, done it. Unfortunately, thanks in part no doubt to 
my reporting spammers, I get rather a lot of spam. I just checked my 
spamtrap and mail server logs. In the last three hours, I've downloaded and 
deleted unread twelve messages sent to abandoned email addresses and my 
spamtrap contains fifteen messages, all spam caught about 50/50 by SBL+XBL 
and the Bayesian plugin. Experience shows that without the Bayesian plugin, 
those messages it caught would have got through (albeit many would be 
trapped by secondary filtering on user MUAs).

Just over a year ago, I was getting well over a thousand spams per day. 
Most of those were bounces or complaints resulting from a Floridian spammer 
"borrowing" one of my domains. It isn't that bad now, but I still get 
nearly a thousand spams a week sent to valid email addresses. So, the ten a 
week represents about one percent of messages tagged as spam, which 
probably isn't as bad as you thought.

-- 
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK