https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6515

--- Comment #12 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-05-12 16:39:17 
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> > My opinion is that it should be set to -99 because if you run out
> > of time and haven't gotten to any negative scoring rules, the time
> > out causes a FP.
> 
> In the messages hitting the TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED in our log for the
> past month (and examining their rule hits, score, and subject),
> I can say that the rule hits which triggered during the first 45 seconds
> of processing always yielded a reasonably good approximation of the
> expected final score. One would be extremely unlucky if rules that
> did trigger contributed a large positive score which would have been
> counteracted by a large negative score of one of the rules which were
> aborted. While it may theoretically be possible, I think that a mostly
> neutral default score for TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED is a good approximation.
> Assigning it a large negative score would counteract the whole idea
> of why this was implemented in the first place (large spam messages
> were often given a free pass). I'd like to keep it as it is.

Sorry, my comment is meant for administrators that use this feature should
consider setting this to -99.  I'm not suggesting the patch change.

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