Bayes Score Recommendation

[Max Kipness]

My apologies, I did not see my own post come back to me and thought I had
accidentally used the wrong SMTP account to send the post.

Max

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:18 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Bayes Score Recommendation
> 
> This is a verbatim a repost of yesterday's thread:
> 
> "Recommendation on Bayes Score"
> 
> If the answers to that thread were not acceptable, I'd suggest following
> up in
> that thread, rather than reposting.
> 
> Max Kipness wrote:
> > I have my Bayes score set at the default 3.5. A good amount of spam is
> > caught by my system using Bayes, SA rules, Razor, DCC, and Pyzor.
> However
> > there is an increasing amount of spam getting is getting through. When I
> > look at the headers of these particular emails, sometimes it might have
> a
> > Razor score and/or DCC adding a bit to the score, and the Bayes is
> ALWAYS
> > at 3.50. My score required for it to be considered spam is 6.
> >
> > Should I raise the Bayes score and just make sure the Bayes databases
> are
> > well tuned?
> >
> > Are they any other checks that I could perform?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Max
> >
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