TippingPoint Recommended Disabled Filters

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Hi everybody- 

We recently bought a TippingPoint IPS for our company and noticed that along with 3500 active definitions, there were a few hundred that were recommended disabled.  I'm curious if anyone has ever had the need to enable any of these and what the situation was.  

thanks

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