SpamAssassin score below 7?

[Donovan Huff | HUFF DATA SYSTEMS]

Mine is currently set at the default score of 5 and only a little spam gets thru and almost no legitimate e-mails get tagged/scored
as SPAM.


Regards,

Donovan Huff
Owner/Operator
HUFF DATA SYSTEMS
donovan at huffdatasystems.com
http://www.huffdatasystems.com/
(361) 781-0631

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Kleinsinger" <DanielK at AVALONPUB.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: SpamAssassin score below 7?


> Is there a recommended default spam score?  I rememeber seeing 9 recommended
> instead of 5 somewhere so that's what mine is set to, but casually looking
> through ham most of seems to have a negative score.  Does anyone who
> monitors pretty closely have a record for highest scoring ham?  My
> preference is to keep it rather conservative as to minimize any chance of an
> fp, but I have a feeling I'm letting a considerable amount of spam through
> without reason.  Thanks for any input.
>
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ISP List [mailto:isp-list at TULSACONNECT.COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 12:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: SpamAssassin score below 7?
>
>
> Anyone doing a SpamAssassin score threshold below 7?  Have any problems with
> false positives?
>
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