> Can you please provide info on the following tests:
> 
> SPAMCHK         95.73%

Hi Travis,

I'm one of the two developers of SPAMCHK, a free addon for declude
junkmail.
We've developed this tool to make some content based tests.

Here are some examples for what SPAMCHK will look for:

-Subjectlines with more the xx spacers
-Subjectlines with numeric codes
-HTML comments used to hide certain keywords
-Tipical keywords in subject, to-adress, x-mailer, body and url's
-unreadable from-adresses (like [EMAIL PROTECTED])
-remove-links
-image-links

Every test can have his own weight, configurable in a ini-file.
Additional SPAMCHK can also give negative points for example if the
message is greater then xx kbytes. This can help to avoid false
positives.

The sum of SPAMCHK's internal weighting system is returned to declude so
that it can be used in combination with the results of all other tests
in declude's weighting system. 

This will also explain the 3. place in Scott's monthly spam report:
SPAMCHK can return a weight from -X to +X. So SPAMCHK will not clearly
say "yes I think it's spam: 20 points" or "no it's a legit message: 0
points"
The answers are more like "We've found something suspiciuos and give 2
points for this message" or also "We've found a lot of suspiciuos
content and give 35 points for this message"
Another answer can be "There are a lot of indicators for a legit
message: -10 points"

So as Scott has stated: The third place for SPAMCHK must not be his real
value. Commercial products like Message Sniffer and Spammanager can
offer continued automatic updates and their scan engine for sure is more
complex and matured then our's.

If you're interested you can download SPAMCHK for free from
www.riedmann.it/spamchk or subscribe to the mailinglist (at them moment
there are only a few messages per week) 
Write a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "Subscribe spamchk your_name" in
the body. On the list are also available extended and updated
configuration-files with additional keywords.


Markus

(Please excuse my bad english, SPAMCHK is an italian/german product :-)



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