Chasing Chimera

The exact nature of received spam messages for every domain is different, and the spam capture rate will vary from day to day for every domain due to the ever changing content of spam. However, MessageLabs has calculated spam detection rates in a live environment that is representative of the spam received by any .com domains.

All too frequently, anti-spam techniques that require either monitoring in a dynamic environment or measuring in an indirect manner are passed over in favor of those techniques whose effectiveness is easier and simpler to measure. Nevertheless, simple approaches to measuring anti-spam efficiency do not necessarily reflect the actions of a filter in a live environment. While the live environment is chaotic, difficult to predict and certainly never exactly identical between two tests, it is the environment in which spam filters are required to operate.

This white paper discusses in depth the effectiveness of anti-spam in a Live environment. It considers some of the risks that employers face and offers in depth information about measuring the effectiveness of an anti-spam solution. To learn more, please download this white paper.

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