Mailing list messages scoring high!

[Matt Kettler]

At 11:50 PM 5/13/2004, Michael Freeman wrote:
>Its interesting to note that msgs coming to me from the MailScanner
>mailing list should be scoring so high.
>
>May 13 08:42:02 srv07 MailScanner[19563]: Message 1BOILR-0007TA-8k from
>130.246.192.55
>(<mailto:owner-mailscanner at jiscmail.ac.uk>owner-mailscanner at jiscmail.ac.uk)
>  to mydomain.com is spam, SpamAssassin (score=3.547, required 3, BIZ_TLD
>0.78, DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24 1.95, HTML_30_40 0.81, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00)


Wait.. you consider 3.5 to be high??? And this on a mailing list that is
all about spam filtering, where spam will be discussed, and often quoted?

You do realize that according to STATISTICS.txt a theshold of 3.0 on SA
2.63 results in a false positive rate that hits 2.6% of the nonspam corpus.
(Yes, there IS a reason why the default is 5.0)

>What wrong with the DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24 1.95?

What do you mean what's wrong with it?

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