Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Spam Sieve statistics

Sick of spam? If you're a Mac user, you might want to check out SpamSieve. Have been using it for years, and it's one piece of software I would gladly pay good money for. The author regularly updates the software too. Below are some statistics accumulated since my last reset in 2005.

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Filtered Mail
2,351 Good Messages
23,698 Spam Messages (91%)
31 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy
15 False Positives
202 False Negatives (93%)
99.2% Correct

Corpus
571 Good Messages
1,307 Spam Messages (70%)
91,175 Total Words

Rules
676 Blocklist Rules
982 Whitelist Rules

Showing Statistics Since
11/22/05 18:47

1 comment:

-ben said...

Generally, any mail or messages with the following words and phrases, "viagra," "nigeria," "general," "king," "princess," "enhance performance," "better please your woman," "increase your confidence," should be shunted to the trash. :-D