[NCLUG] SpamAssassin Testimonials?

[Bill Thorson]

Michael Milligan wrote:

> Rich Young wrote:
>
>> Hi, all-
>>     We're considering installing SpamAssassin, and some of my users 
>> here aren't familiar enough with it to know whether they should 
>> support the plan or not. I would appreciate it if a few of you who 
>> have had personal experience with SpamAssassin could reply to me off 
>> list with your brief thoughts on its effectiveness as a spam 
>> reduction tool.  
>
>
> I'd like to respond on-list as I'm interested in other data points as 
> well.
>
>> I'd be especially grateful for comments on:
>> - accidental filtering of legitimate messages
>
>
> Very very rare.  I can't remember the last time it happened here.
>

The very first day I ran it a message from my on-line broker about a 
stop-sell
being activated and executed was filtered out as spam.   It's not as rare as
you might guess.

Bill