Re: Too many false positives...goodbye, razor

John, 

We had some DB issues (missing content in catalogues) over the last 2
weeks which could have caused the false positives with E*TRADE/Ebay
messages. We have fixed this problem 90%, and over the next couple of days
all the relevant data will be available in the catalogue servers.

Regarding mailing list false positives, it would help to know what mailing
list posts you revoked (with debug logs). This will help us determine if
something is broken, or if you don't have enough trust in the system, or
if these lists are considered to be spam by the majority of Razor2 users.

cheers,
vipul

> After many months of using razor, it has become apparent to me that
> there are too many irresponsible users, or that razor is doing an
> inadequate job of compensating for them.  I'm seeing far too many
> false positives, including Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Day", eBay
> outbid notification, and E*TRADE dividend notices...all of which are
> important personal messages or opt-in mailing lists.  False positives
> make up about 1/4-1/3 of the "spam" blocked by razor on my system.
> 
> Yes, I've been reporting spam and revoking non-spam.  I've done
> everything I can from my end, and it's just not working for me.
> 
> So thanks for the discussion and the help for the past few months, but
> I'm going to try something else.  I just wanted to let the key people
> to know why.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'll probably ditch SpamAssassin too, because of
> the ridiculous system load even when using spamd/spamc.
> 
> Goodbye and good luck,


-- 

Ummm, well, OK.  The network's the network, the computer's the computer.
Sorry for the confusion.
                -- Sun Microsystems


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