Barracude BRBL ??

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Wed Jan 7 00:54:56 GMT 2009


Scott Silva wrote:
> <snip>
>> I did that too, and must say that 70-80% of all messages tagged by BRBL
>> with a low test score are ham, the other 20-30% are really spam. With a
>> low score that might be good to lift up the real spams, so that they
>> don´t slip under the required SA score.
>>
>> But with this rate, I will never use this RBL in my policyd-weight setup.
>>
> Strange, because for the 24 or so hours I have been running it, I'm hitting
> over 97% spam.
> 
> I haven't looked at the other 3 % to see if it is actually ham or FN's.
> 
> Good enough for me to add more than half a point, but not more than 3 points.
> 
> I don't want this one list too strong unless I can hit 100%.
> 
> 

We see pretty good results from BRBL too, but there are some FPs. We 
have home and business dialup and dsl (ISP) users. I've found it's good 
in META with Botnet rules. META with DCC and Razor also hits good, but 
may FP once in a while.

Ken


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