Make sure im doing this right

[Matt Kaminer]

I thought about moving spamcop.net to the MTA.  But I think that would
mess up our true "spam" statisctics.  We use the Mailwatch program and I
dont think it would register as incoming since the message would be
blocked at the front door.

Oh I forgot to mention we use Razor and DCC too.

I think lowering the spam score to 5 is a good idea.  Ill leave the high
spam score alone at 10

Jeff Earickson said:
> I too run the same config (except that I use spamcop as an MTA block,
> not in MS; I use ORDB-RBL CBL SBL+XBL in the MS spam list).  I
> use scores of 5 (deliver) and 10 (delete).  I would be leery of lowering
> the high score much lower than 10; I'm probably living dangerously
> tossing email above 10.  My two cents.
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
>
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Matt Kaminer wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:05:26 -0500
>> From: Matt Kaminer <matt at kaminer.com>
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Make sure im doing this right
>>
>> Our Mailscanner / SpamAssassin / Bayes / Big Evil List / ChickenPox /
>> SpamCop.Net setup has been doing so well I have never gotten a false
>> positve (although I get false negatives every so often).
>>
>> We have the Spam score set to 6 and high scoring spam set to 10.  We
>> deliver spam and delete high scoring spam.
>>
>> Ive been thinking about lowering the high scoring spam to 8 and lowering
>> spam to 5.  Lowering the spam level to 5 would basically wipe out all my
>> false negatives.
>>
>> My question is this:  What is the "normal" settings.  Is 5 and 8 for
>> high
>> scoring spam too low?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>