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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 20:55 -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Does anyone understand why SA bumps scores up instead of down for </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">addresses that are in the auto white-list database? I.e. here is an </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">example spam report:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=2.302, required 3.5, AWL 1.34, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">BAYES_50 0.00, NO_REAL_NAME 0.96)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Isn't the point of auto white listing to reduce the score?</FONT>
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>From What I understand AWL is not a "white-list" database really. It is an averager. So it looks like that particular email scored a 2.302, but AWL has a higher average for that sender, so it upped the score by 1.34.<BR>
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Hope that makes sense.<BR>
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James
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