On 11/30/2017 12:16 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
it’s a rather large PITA for a small site with an admin that needs to count on most things running on autopilot most of the time in order to survive.
I have to disagree with that. I've been running SpamAssassin for > 15 years and have found it to be mostly trouble free. - I have cron jobs update it's files and rely on milters to accept / tag / reject messages. - I spend very little time caring for / feeding SpamAssassin. Probably < 5 minutes a month.) Sure, I occasionally fiddle with things, but that's because I want to, not because I need to.
So, while it might be a higher-quality solution, I’d argue that it’s not completely “better” in that any autopilotable configuration of it involves a high degree of false negatives or an unacceptable level of false positives.
I've had fairly good luck with autopilot. I also don't see many false negatives. Nor do people report false positives to me. (Granted, I tag at 5 and reject at 15.)
People who want to be malicious are usually less willing to do so if they know that they will be identified, so actually, it does help.
Agreed. -- Grant. . . . unix || die