Botnet 0.4 Spam Assassin plugin

[Wayne]

At 14:17 27/11/2006, you wrote:

Do not know if I am alone with this problem but I 
have had to remove BOTNET as it was doing it's 
job too well - it was deleting all mail which 
originated from genuine ADSL addresses I even 
tried adding these addresses to white-lists and 
other files saying not to be read as spam - they 
still were. If the problem of genuine use of adsl 
addresses can be addressed I will try again.

- Wayne -


> > > 12) The BOTNET rule is now worth 5 points, instead of 6.  It would be
> > interesting to know what people have found as useful scores for the
> > plugin.
> >
> > Too high, I wouldn't use anything above 2.5 and reason is I don't trust
> > any one
> > rule that much.
>
>I'm inclined to agree - the scores are too high 
>for my tastes as well.  My threshold is 6 to be 
>marked as spam; one rule which applies 5 
>directly is simply too dangerous to be useful.
>
> > >     i) do you want me to leave it as it is, or
> > >    ii) put in the __ so that the sub-rules stop showing up in the
> > >        final report?
> >
> > As long as there is a debug option, the long report should be limited for
> > debug
> > info and the short one for normal operation.
> > --
> > René Berber
>
>Definitely use the __ format, and provide a 
>debug option to see the individually triggered rules on demand.
>
>
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