Mailing list messages scoring high!

[Alex Neuman]

I usually set my own personal server to 3.8 and others to 4 or 5 depending
on stats gathered after running it for about a month. Some are set as high
as 6.

> 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...
>
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
> 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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