Make sure im doing this right

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Wed Mar 17 22:29:18 GMT 2004


Matt Kaminer wrote:
> 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?

Many have 5 and 10. I think you could get by with 8 as high if you
quarantine (store) instead of delete. That way you can still deliver the
few FP:s (I have never seen one over 6). Use it with the quarantine
cleaner script to keep the size in control.

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