Mailing list messages scoring high!

Michael Freeman admin at thenamegame.com
Fri May 14 05:29:50 IST 2004


I have the following based on the junk we are getting

# This replaces the SpamAssassin configuration value 'required_hits'.
# If a message achieves a SpamAssassin score higher than this value,
# it is spam. See also the High SpamAssassin Score configuration option.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset, so the SpamAssassin
# required_hits value can be set to different values for different messages.
Required SpamAssassin Score = 3

# If a message achieves a SpamAssassin score higher than this value,
# then the "High Scoring Spam Actions" are used. You may want to use
# this to deliver moderate scores, while deleting very high scoring
messsages.
# This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
High SpamAssassin Score = 5

All anything over 5 gets deleted.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler at EVI-INC.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Mailing list messages scoring high!


> 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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