Bayes score not exceding 5.4

[David Lee]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Darrin wrote:

>
>         Is there a setting for bayes maximum score? I have noticed that I
> cannot teach bayes to score over 5.4. Required spam score is 6, and I am
> barely missing so much spam :). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Taking your message at face value, I read (perhaps mistakenly) that you
may be trying to use Bayes as the _only_ technique of scoring spam.  It is
usually preferable to build up your spam score from a wide range of
several different techniques rather than rely on any one single technique.
One of those "several" would indeed be Bayes, but it is prudent to augment
it with other contributions, such as SpamAssassin's rulesets (including
extras from SARE), various RBLs, DCC/Pyzor/Razor etc.

Remember all the time that spam scoring is an inexact and fuzzy art, not a
nice, certain, exact, cut-and-dried, black-and-white, pre-Heisenberg
science!

Hope that helps.

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