On 03/11/2012 06:10 PM, Henrik Krohns wrote:
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:09:05PM +0100, Axb wrote:
On 03/11/2012 04:50 PM, Michael Parker wrote:

On Mar 11, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Axb wrote:

On 03/11/2012 04:02 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote:
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.

yeah right - re-using stale data - sorry, I can't agree.

XBL doesn't "correct" its listings.
If anybody does any correction, then it's the exploited/abused host's owner 
who's taken action and cleaned up/delisted

If your windows box was exploited and listed in CBL for a day, and you submit a 
delisting request after you fixed , the listing will disappear within a couple 
of hours, the CBL/XBL worked as intended and that incident could be recorded in 
someone's corpus for a long time tho the incident has long been resolved and 
this would negatively influence the BL's score.

Pretty obviously wrong.

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.

Then you don't understand how CBL/XBL works and how this method and low score 
is breaking its strength in tagging exploited sender IPs.
As we may use XBL to reject mail, the score should be accordingly high for 
those who chose NOT to reject yet want to get the full advantage of XBL's 
accuracy.

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)

Anybody using HAM older than 3 years should voluntarily cleanup.
Patterns change and as with spam, HAM also goes stale.



Sorry, but your thinking is wrong.  What Darxus says is completely correct.

How can be it be right to reuse BL hits which have probably expired
along time ago?

To me this is like saying your credit rating at age 40 is bad coz
you had a $5k debt at age 20

Don't understand your logic.

I have to agree with Axb here.

If we are talking about _Spamhaus_ which most people have rejecting at SMTP
time anyway, the current XBL/SBL scores are ridiculously low.

A few lame livejournal/forum mails are allowed to make one of the most
respected lists to be less effective?

.......and why did these forum IPs land in XBL in the firts place?
What exploit hit them?

May we have these IPs so we can research their history?









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