MAPS RBL+ worth it?

[Julian Field]

At 20:44 15/07/2002, you wrote:
> >I have just processed the stats for our site from the beginning of this
> >month, so you've got a pretty random 2 weeks worth.
> >
> >I have separated out the figures for each of the 5 RBL's I use and
> >SpamAssassin, so the following are the number of messages detected *only*
> >by the RBL listed:
> >      82 Infinite-Monkeys
> >      81 MAPS-RBL+
> >     101 ORDB
> >    9351 SpamAssassin
> >    1001 osirusoft.com
> >     693 spamcop.net
> >
> >The total number of spam messages in this time was 20,231. 8922 of these
> >were detected by more than 1 spam trap.
> >
> >So there were only 81 messages which were *only* detected by MAPS-RBL+,
> >whereas over 9000 were detected *only* by SpamAssassin.
> >
> >So having MAPS-RBL+ only saved us from 81 pieces of spam in the last 2
> weeks.
> >
>
>Julian,
>
>   Thanks for the info.  How did you generate your report, using MTGR or
>   whatever that tool is called?

2 weeks worth of maillog files, "egrep", "egrep -v", "wc -l" and about 10
minutes :-)

>   I suspect that my RBL check is not working.  All I see in the log is
>   that RBL checks have timed out.  I only have
>
>      Spam List = ORDB-RBL, relays.ordb.org

I think you will find my example entries have a "." on the end.
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