SURBL scoring

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi John,

> inbound mail currently scores as spam. 83% of that spam hits at least
> one URI_RBL rule. 31% of spam (37% of spam hits with URI_RBL's) hit
> all four of AB, OB, SC and WS, and 53% (63%) hit three or more! Of the
> "non-spam", 1.4% still has at least one URI_RBL hit.

Please report the non spam... So we can work on this.

> What I added to spamcop_uri.cf (first pass):
>
> meta OB_SC_URI_RBL (SPAMCOP_URI_RBL && OB_URI_RBL)
> describe OB_SC_URI_RBL  Compensate if both spamcop and OB trigger
> score OB_SC_URI_RBL     -1.5
>
> meta AB_SC_URI_RBL (SPAMCOP_URI_RBL && AB_URI_RBL)
> describe AB_SC_URI_RBL  Compensate if both AB and SC trigger
> score AB_SC_URI_RBL     -1.5
>
> meta OB_WS_URI_RBL (OB_URI_RBL && WS_URI_RBL)
> describe OB_WS_URI_RBL  Compensate if both WS and OB trigger
> score OB_WS_URI_RBL     -1.0
>
> I'd be interested to know what other people do to fix this.

I have forwarded this to the SURBL list also, you might get better
feedback there.

Thanks for sharing this!

Bye,
Raymond.

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