Re: are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Jason Haar wrote: Hi there I just got a one-line piece of spam with a ipaddress-based URL. Probably pointing at some auto infect your Windows PC app. Anyway, it got a score of 0.1 out of 5 when it came in. 4 hours later it had showed up in several RBLs and the score was pushed up to 4.9.

Re: are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-16 Thread Chip M.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Matt Kettler wrote: Yes. In fact, IP based URLs occur more commonly in nonspam than spam. Matt, yes this is correct, however in this particular case nonspam is perhaps a bit broad. It's been my experience that these almost always occur in mass marketing ham, not

Re: are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-16 Thread Jason Haar
Matt Kettler wrote: Yes. In fact, IP based URLs occur more commonly in nonspam than spam. STATISTICS-set0.txt:OVERALLSPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME STATISTICS-set0.txt: 0.395 0.3920 0.40010.495 0.420.10 NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP Note the S/O of 0.42 means that 42%

Re: are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-16 Thread James Wilkinson
Matt Kettler wrote: Yes. In fact, IP based URLs occur more commonly in nonspam than spam. Chip M. wrote: Matt, yes this is correct, however in this particular case nonspam is perhaps a bit broad. It's been my experience that these almost always occur in mass marketing ham, not

Re: are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-16 Thread Loren Wilton
In my (limited) experience, nonspam IP-based URLs almost always have paths after the IP address, whereas a *lot* of spam just points to the IP address. Does this match anyone else's experience? I've never run a masscheck to see, it would be interesting. Trying to think about what I've seen

are the NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP scores still valid?

2008-01-15 Thread Jason Haar
Hi there I just got a one-line piece of spam with a ipaddress-based URL. Probably pointing at some auto infect your Windows PC app. Anyway, it got a score of 0.1 out of 5 when it came in. 4 hours later it had showed up in several RBLs and the score was pushed up to 4.9. My question is that