I see the logic from both sides, and both make sense in their own way.
The only thing I know for sure is this, over the past two months, the
amount of false positives and missed spam submissions has tripled, with
no changes to the server.  So it seemed to me there was way to much
variety in the spamdb.  For instance, one email got blocked because it
had the word "product" in it.  Another for some other harmless word.

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fritz
Borgstedt
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:46 AM
To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy
Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Perfect incoming/outgoing mail to max files
ratio.

Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy
<[email protected]> schreibt:
>Just a small question - when you say "more sources" what do you mean?

A message of 20000 has roughly 5 times the number of words compared to
a message of 4000. 5 messages of 4000 gives you the same number of
words but more sources.
If you define e.g. maxsize 20000 some messages with this length will
contribute more to the database than the average SPAM ( 4 K ) or HAM (
8 K ). You end up with the number of messages unnessary low.
(Besides that, the number of words for HAM will tend to be double that
of SPAM).

So reducing maxbytes gives you the possibility of handling more
different messages, more sources.


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