This was recently discussed on the users list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/spamassassin/users/173721
I'd still like to try to keep the traffic on this list to a minimum to avoid masscheck contributors unsubscribing due to noise, so we can contact them when something actually specific to masschecking comes up. On 08/21, Michael Monnerie wrote: > I had this rule in a HAM: > > 3.7 FROM_12LTRDOM From a 12-letter domain > > which caused it to be identified as SPAM. Who ever wrote that rule? > There may have been a spammer who used 12 letter domains, but causing > EVERY 12 letter domain to be identified by 3.7 points is... too much. > > Maybe the mass-check script "learned" that this rule should have 3.7, or > who decided to have 3.7? If it was mass-check, there should be a way to > limit points for a rule to a realistic range by human. For example, to > define that FROM_12LTRDOM could have from 0.1 to 1.5 points, so we don't > cause nearly every 12 letter domain mail to be spam. > > I hope this is the right list to ask this? > > -- > mit freundlichen Grüssen, > Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc > > it-management Internet Services: Protéger > http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] > Tel: +43 660 / 415 6531 -- "Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." - Euripides (c.480 - 406 BC). http://www.ChaosReigns.com
