Re: [afw-general] AfW and Spam detection question..

[Daniel E. <da...@sy...>]

I just use AfW, actually. I don't like the "false positives" - not to
mention the "false negatives" - of the other systems. If I were to use one
it would be BEHIND AfW, not in front, just to catch the few stray spams that
make it through ASK.

As for the bandwidth issue, that's the exact reason Marco (ASK author)
didn't write ASK to run on local machines. But my point at the time was that
most people (especially Windows users) don't have access to their own mail
server and so couldn't run ASK at all. My solution (AfW) does increase
outgoing bandwidth, but at least we have access to ASK now.

Daniel

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jaeger" <tj...@re...>
To: <afw...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: [afw-general] AfW and Spam detection question..


> I was contemplating all these confirmations that my AfW has to send out on
a daily
> basis.  Right now I only have a 1 layer of Spam detection/protection, AfW.
I was trying
> to think of ways to cut down on how many confirmations that AfW has to
send out (and
> how much bandwidth it uses).  I can only fathom that 90-95% of them are
just
> confirmations sent to spammers.  Have any of you guys that use AfW setup a
2nd layer
> of spam detection/protection..that sits in front of AfW?  Like for
example..run
> POPFile..or some other Bayesian filter/detection so that only those
e-mails that don't
> look like spam get sent confirmations?  That way you could save on
bandwidth usage.
> I am trying to determine if it might be more hassle than it's
worth...appreciate any insight
> you guys have on the issue.  :-)
> Cheers!
>
> -- Tim Jaeger
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