Bayes and spam increase?

[Magda Hewryk]

Yes, I've got a lot  untagged spam email on the weekend.  I found BAYES_00
-2.60 attached to all of them.


Thanks,

Magda



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At 10:43 AM 2/7/2005, Fractal IT Dept. wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>
>We've noticed an increase in the number of spam sneaking through with
>scores "just under" our threshold. After looking through the headers for
>these messages, I've noticed that bayes seems to have "no opinion" on the
>majority of these (ie. no bayes entry). Am I missing something? I thought
>bayes would score every message?

That's not entirely true, especially for the 2.6 series.. in 2.6x or 2.5x,
In those any "no matches" or other 50/50 chance does not get a BAYES_ rule
match.

Can you tell us what version of SpamAssassin you are using?

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