> Warren Togami wrote:
>> While whitelists are not directly effective (statistically, when
>> averaged across a large corpus), whitelists are powerful tools in
>> indirect ways including:
>>
>> * Pushing the score beyond the auto-learn threshold for things like
>> Bayes to function without ma
Very interesting data indeed -- and a testament to the accuracy of the
SpamAssassin rules weighting process.
On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> While whitelists are not directly effective (statistically, when averaged
> across a large corpus), whitelists are powerful tools in i
On 12/17/2009 11:27 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote:
If whitelists are to be enabled by default, I believe their score should
be moved considerably more toward zero.
/Jason
I don't necessarily disagree with this desire, as now we know the
whitelists actually are making almost zero difference to spam
Thank you, Warren. That (finally) gives some real perspective to this
mess, and gets some of the 'real' questions answered.
- C
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Togami wrote:
I made a discovery today that surprised even myself. Using the rescore
masscheck and weekly masscheck logs while working
Warren Togami wrote:
While whitelists are not directly effective (statistically, when
averaged across a large corpus), whitelists are powerful tools in
indirect ways including:
* Pushing the score beyond the auto-learn threshold for things like
Bayes to function without manual intervention
Warren Togami wrote:
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6247#c49
> https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6247#c51
> It turns out that the ReturnPath and DNSWL whitelists have a
> statistically insignificant impact on spamassassin's ability to
> determine ham
I made a discovery today that surprised even myself. Using the rescore
masscheck and weekly masscheck logs while working on Bug #6247 I found
some interesting details that throws a wrench into this lively debate.
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6247#c49
https://issues.ap
