On Jun 30, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote:

> On 30.6.2012 21:32, João Gouveia wrote:
>> Hi Jarif,
>> 
>> Are you the owner of the "jarif" corpus being used on the Spamassassin
>> masschecks?
>> If so, I'm interested in investigating these classification errors:
>> 
>> http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20120630-r1355665-n/RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL?mclog=ham-net-jarif
>> 
>> I own and operate MailSpike, and naturally I'm a bit concerned about
>> this false positives.
>> Would it be possible to know the list of IP addresses that caused so
>> many false positives?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!
>> 
> 
> I had false alarms in my corpus, thanks for posting me this query!
> 
> 1. They were mostly old mails from WorldOfTanks.eu and Facebook.com.
> They did trigger apparently RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL in 2011 and early this year.
> 
> 2. None of them trigger it now.
> 
> 3. I have to to remove old SpamAssassin traces from all of my corpus. I
> had thought that SA does it automatically when doing masscheck, but I
> was wrong! I even asked about it in SA dev mailing list, but got no
> answer and made a bad decision to leave the markup to the files.
> 

You shouldn't remove the old SA hits from your corpus.  Those hits are used by 
reuse rules and are critical for proper accuracy of some rules.

Michael

> No worries, I take corrective action now.
> 
> Thanks, jarif
> 
> ps.
> 
> They seem to trigger still
> 
>   3.5 FROM_12LTRDOM From a 12-letter domain
> 
> Where did that rule come? Really? 12 letters in domain, and it gets 3.5
> points??
> 
> Received: from wot-slave-54.worldoftanks.ru ([213.252.131.54])
>        by ikiaikainen.iki.fi (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0NIObHR027573
>        for <[email protected]>; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:24:37 +0200 (EET)
> Received: by wot-slave-54.worldoftanks.ru (Postfix, from userid 101)
>        id 32686BB83CC; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:24:32 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> 
> It is  worldoftanks.eu and worldoftanks.ru triggering this strange rule.
> 
> All mail from Facebook gets negative points only.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
>       
> 
> 

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