Matt Kettler writes:
Adam Katz wrote:
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
generates the scores) are concerned,
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Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Adam Katz wrote:
Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores in
html obfuscation, dates set in the future, and spf marking:
The default scores are generated by analyzing their performance
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:58:37PM -0500, Adam Katz wrote:
Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores in
html obfuscation, dates set in the future, and spf marking:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, John D. Hardin wrote:
The default scores are generated by analyzing their performance
against hand-categorized corpa of actual emails. If a rule hits spam
often and ham rarely, it will be given a higher score than one that
hits spam often and ham occasionally.
That sounds
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
generates the scores) are concerned, rules are independent. There is no
increase in severity, either a
Adam Katz wrote:
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
generates the scores) are concerned, rules are independent. There is
...
That's where the human tweaking is supposed to happen; if gobs of spam
flag the 80% meter of some test while no ham does, and the 90% meter is
almost never hit by anything, it should have a higher value than the 80%
meter does. If the 90% meter has more ham than spam despite the 80% meter
