On 08/22, Michael Monnerie wrote: > As a last statement I'd like to say that I found the reasoning for the > FROM_12LTRDOM strange: It's obviously harsh to punish such domains. If
I haven't read through all the relevant discussion, but I suspect everyone involved mostly agrees with you. I think the creation of a significantly large score for it was the result of insufficient masscheck data, a situation which substantially improved about the time this list was created. We can always use more data exactly to avoid problems like this. As to what I believe is your objection to the existence of the rule: I understand, I sympathize. There are rules against doing other entirely valid things that *I* do, for example not having a "real name" in my From address. But these rules exist because they might correspond highly to spam, and are very carefully automatically scored accordingly (when we have enough data). It's a complicated subject. > you'd own such a domain and are a seller, and suddenly 70% of your > customers don't get your mails anymore because they are spam filtered, > you are in deep trouble. And you can't do anything, as all customers > have their own SA installation. Just because the small mass-check team > has good results doesn't make it better for any owner of a 12 letter > domain. Yup, that's exactly why we need more masscheck data, and we all know it. Basing most SA scores on fifteen people's email who are *not* representative of all email users (we're all computer geeks who mostly speak English) is *bad*. Please fix it :) > Please don't answer to this on this list, just PM if you feel so. Heh. -- "Go forth, and be excellent to one another." - http://www.jhuger.com/fredski.php http://www.ChaosReigns.com
