On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:00 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > It is very nice having spamassassin in Contrib in 9.0, but after having > some obvious spams get past spamassassin I took a look at the score file > and found that it differs from the "official" spamassassin scores file in > rather strange ways. > > The scores file can be found in /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf > > The scores file in the RPM will for example penalise mails originating from > Kmail by +1.634 points instead of the -2.863 points in the 'official' > scores file. > (A negative score is indicative of non-spam) > > Another example: > The mildly 'spammish' phrase "Congratulations" is scored as 0.218 points in > the official score file, but is given a massively non spammish score of > -3.077 in the score file in the RPM. > > In order to revert back to the 'official' scores, just download the > spamassassin tar.gz file from www.spamassassin.org and decompress the > compressed file (just clicking on it in konqueror is all you need to do > this), then copy 50_scores.cf into /usr/share/spamassassin > > derek <tongue-(mostly)-in-cheek> Many of the Mandrake developers use 'scoring' to help decide whether they read specific messages on the cooker ml. The likelihood that a "lousy bug report" will be written in something other than a command line mail client would probably explain that weighting. More "guru elitism" on someone's part. Or just someone that is so pressed for time that they don't want to be bothered with "us gnubies" out here. Or just too tired to proofread a configuration file properly. ;)
The congratulations thing is a left over from Dolphin release, when world+dog was saying that to the developers? Change the settings to suit yourselves maybe? <g> <\tongue-in-cheek> -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. -- James Boren
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