Anti-spam systems often block the delivery of legitimate email. When this happens, the blocked message is referred to as a "false-positive" result.
Eliminating false-positives is the most difficult problem for email recognition and filtering technologies, and is what separates the OnlyMyEmail system from the rest.
For most companies, the potential loss of just one business opportunity far outweighs the inconvenience that junk email presents.
The reality is that every known system for fighting junk email will also create false-positives and thus result in blocking legitimate email. Numerous studies, research papers and real world testing have shown the rate of false-positives to be as high as 34% (1) in some cases, with even the better systems still blocking 6% to 8% of legitimate email.(2)
In most comparative analysis, a false-positive rate of 1% or 2% is usually considered to be exceptionally good.
As a "best case scenario" imagine the business consequences that would result from blocking just one out of every hundred emails from legitimate prospects, customers and clients, let alone the ramifications of blocking even more - as most systems will.
By contrast OnlyMyEmail's technology was developed specifically to eliminate the "false-positive" problem, and this is one of the benefits that distinguishes our service from other available solutions.
The result: OnlyMyEmail's false-positive rate is currently just 1 in 151,621 and that's not a "lab result" but in real world production. Further, in more than 80% of these situations, the blocked messages were commercially sent mass email, and not "critical-false-positives" (an actual personal or business correspondence).
In fact, OnlyMyEmail's "critical-false-positive" rate of just 5 per Million emails is unmatched by any competitor, making it the most accurate and reliable anti-spam system available.
(1) Giga Information Group
(2) Assurance Systems