On 03/11, Axb wrote:
> >There are a number of reasons for the score generator to come up with this
> >result.
> 
> agreed, and that doesn't mean it's 100% accurate.

Yep.  Well, I'd use "ideal" instead of "accurate".  But I fear fully
comprehending the mind of the re-scorer.

> Could you please check if any of those IPs are still listed ?
> (especially XBL)
> 
> If they aren't, then it's "reuse" which is causing the issue.

If any of the IPs are not still listed, then reuse is doing exactly
its job, providing us with the accuracy of the lists at the time email
is received.  I'm not interested in their accuracy after they've had
ample opportunity to correct bad listings, which is not the accuracy
anybody actually gets from spamassassin.

> reuse  RCVD_IN_XBL
> reuse  RCVD_IN_SBL
> 
> Unless we want to trust stale data, I think this should be removed
> for a number of BLs  which have short lived listings.

I object strongly.

Although I still think it would be lovely to reduce the maximum age of
emails used in re-scoring to something lower than 6 *years* for ham:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6386
But that would require significantly more masscheck contributors, which
would require allowing more masscheck contributors:
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6694 (security
problem not visible to everybody, possibly invalid, needs input from
Warren)

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