Defensio: Quarter Million Spams Caught And Counting…

I just thought I’d give a little status update on my usage of Defensio.

Since March 23rd, Defensio has caught over 250000 spams on my blog. Here’s the breakdown:

250841 spam

608 legitimate comments

89 false negatives (undetected spam)

52 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)

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This entry was posted by Alex (Viper007Bond) on July 19th, 2008 at 8:55 PM, and is filed under WordPress. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or pingback from your own site.

Comments (3)

#1 written by Peter
about 2 years ago

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Still quite a lot of room for improvement if the false positive rate is 8%.
#2 written by Viper007Bond
about 2 years ago

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Peter on July 20th, 2008 at 5:05 PM2008-07-21T00:05:16ZF jS, Y \a\t g:i A wrote:

Still quite a lot of room for improvement if the false positive rate is 8%.

Well I look at it this way: out of 251449 total comments, it got 141 wrong which is 0.05%. As for the false positives, I probably get one or two a week lately I’d say which is pretty good. Plus they’re easy to find as comments are sorted by spam rating.
#3 written by Carl Mercier
about 2 years ago

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Good to see that we saved you from manually deleting 250k spam! Let us know how our new back end is doing for you!

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