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Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 09:52:52 CDT

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On 7/3/07, Joey <Joeyweb56.net> wrote:
> So the main question is still how do I weigh everything I am doing and cut
> out the waste, so that we can add newer methods and not crash our server.
> I'm sure many of you deal with this as well, and I figured someone would
> have some ideas…

I would take a qualitative approach to this. If you are doing all of
these things, you might take a moment or two and spend some time
evaulating "hits" on each one of these to assess which rules are
performing most of the blocking. There's a 90/10 rule for me that says
90% of the spam is blocked by 10% of my total defenses in place. YMMV
on 90/10, 80/20, or whatever.

But the bottom line is that you cannot manage that which you cannot
measure. Measure it first, then you'll have the data to decide this.

-Angelo

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