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+ Tue, August 24

SpamSieve

Last January, I installed Michael Tsai’s excellent SpamSieve.  It’s a handy little app that runs next to my email app and it has quite literally ended spam for me.  Here are statistics:

Filtered Mail
7470 Good Messages
1765 Spam Messages (19%)
8 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy
5 False Positives
39 False Negatives (89%)
99.5% Correct

Showing Statistics Since
1/27/04 10:39 AM

Out of 1,765 spams, it made only 44 mistakes with 5 of those being hard to notice.  At its best, I had 99.7% accuracy and that’s fantastic.  Out of 1,000 emails, that’s 3 mistakes.

I bring this up today because SpamSieve saw a major upgrade today and I want to reset my database to try and get even better results.  If you’ve got a Mac and you’ve got a problem with spam, this app is the best $25 you can spend.

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1 → skippy  –  (Aug 25 2004, 10:38 AM)

i love hearing about your spamsieve results, i cant get a cool program like that, but it is very cool!

2 → Mike  –  (Aug 27 2004, 10:54 AM)

I’m currently enrolled in the U-M’s DSPAM trial, which filters out suspected spam on the server level.  It’s all placed in a DSPAM folder for easy examination, and you’re able to correct the program if it mistakenly places spam in your inbox, or the other way around.

It’s surprisingly accurate, and it’ll hopefully be an opt-in service for the general U-M community sometime this fall.

3 → shanecavanaugh  –  (Aug 31 2004, 12:23 AM)

I just came a cross an interview that John Gruber conducted with Michael Tsai. You might find it interesting, though it’s from last year.

4 → Kelly  –  (Aug 31 2004,  3:19 PM)

Are you going to update this thing more than once a week?  C’mon Dokas. 

5 → brian  –  (Sep  6 2004,  5:41 AM)

1)  Entourage’s built-in junk filter (for which I unfortunately do not have exact statistics) works extremely well at the “high” rate of protection.  It’s only really occasionally that it will mess something up, and 9 times out of 10 (ha - this is a guess) it’s semi-spam that I tolerate (Classmates.com and CompUSA.com mailings, for example) usually, anyway. 

2)  This is interesting and all, but I hear there are interesting chocolate pudding wrestling stories coming out of ann arbor these days…  any stories forthcoming?






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