[SpamCop-List] Re: Brightmail spam filter - opinions?

[Eric the Viking]

Mike Easter wrote:
> I don't have personal experience with it, but EL uses it and I hang out
> in the EL discussion groups where people complain about the spam that
> Brightmail misses.  I would predict that it would reduce your spamload
> by about 2/3, ie catch about 65% of some people's spam.

I'm an EL user, and in the past thirteen weeks, Brightmail has caught 
between 75-92% of the spams I've received.  (That's just the entire 
period for which I have data. [1])  I check the filtered mail 
periodically, and I don't think it has ever had a false positive.

Combining Brightmail with using various DNSBLs via SpamPal, and my spam 
load has dropped to 1-2 per week.

[1] http://narciblog.home.mindspring.com/spamstats.html