Mailing list messages scoring high!

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Thu May 13 17:14:09 IST 2004


Matt

yes 3.5 isn't that much of a score - I left my required scrore at 5
which is still consided low by some people..

I've got some spams that are scoring well over 80...


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Martin Hepworth
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Matt Kettler wrote:
> 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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