Re: [Asrg] A paper/project worth considering (found it!)

[John Levine <johnl at taugh.com>]

>> So, from your perspective, the TIS button is 100% wrong.  For _you_ it
>> is.  But it's NOT reflective of TIS hits against a network that sends spam.
>
>Of course not: you're correct.  But it is reasonable to presume that a
>user population which has generated a 100% error rate on the FP side has
>also generated a substantial error rate on the FN side.  (That is, there's
>no reason to think they're any more accurate one direction or the other.)

Depends on your model of the sending population.

It appears that you're in roughly the same situation I am,
well-behaved individual users, perhaps some COI lists.  With a
population like that, the scenarios for valid complaints are pretty
marginal, maybe a 'bot that takes its relay config from the local MUA,
maybe a few list members who treat the spam button as unsubscribe.
You're not going to get a lot of FNs if there's no spam to report.
What that tells me is that the main use to us is that if there were a
sudden burst of complaints, it would be a hint that something broke.

You can't generalize from that to a sending stream which has enough
complaint-worthy mail to generate a non-zero number of real
complaints.

R's,
John
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