https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6155

--- Comment #121 from Warren Togami <[email protected]> 2009-10-20 19:00:36 
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(In reply to comment #120)
> I agree that RCVD_VIA_APNIC is a prejudiced rule, and my channels have had it
> rated 0.001 ever since you called me out on it (RCVD_VIA_APNIC accidentally

OK glad to hear that you reduced it.  I didn't look at your scores after that
first time.  You should really get a spamassassin account so your rules can be
more thoroughly tested against a more varied corpa.

> nobody has yet pointed me to.)  (Side note: I see __RCVD_VIA_APNIC is already
> in your own sandbox, hitting 86% of all Japanese ham.)

Yes, I'm using it as a softener to exclude from the extremely prejudiced
CN_<NUMBER> rules.  It just so happens that the majority of CN_<NUMBER> spam
comes from !APNIC, and APNIC is prejudiced in exactly the way to make
CN_<NUMBER> rules less dangerous.  Even though those rules have high spam hit
rates and zero FP's across our nightly masscheck corpa, it is still too
prejudiced to be safe as a default rule.

> SA at its core is merely a system of probabilities.  Even without bayes, the
> masscheck mechanism and its points are awarded based on statistical
> significance.  Very few rules are actually free of FPs (or FNs for negative
> rules).  My question still stands:  what does SA deem statistically 
> significant
> when it comes to FPs?  Why does RDNS_NONE need to be immutable rather than
> dictated by the masscheck results?  What would the automated system score
> RDNS_NONE if it were allowed to?  I'm guessing something between 0.2 and 0.7.

That is an interesting question.

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