On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:13, Blaise St-Laurent wrote:
> I was wondering how more experienced spamassassin admins have been
> assigning scores to rules that are relevant to their site (and also per
> user if need be). I've installed a few "aftermarket" rulesets now, and
> some of the values are (IMO) either too low or two high based on how
> many show up in the spams and hams i examine.
>
> Is there a good methodology to figuring out appropriate scores? I was
> thinking of writing a script that would look at the proportion of
> ham/spam that this rule applies to, but that gives me a percentage, but
> not a value.
>
> How are you all doing it?
>
>
Wow I wish I could answer you right on this but I'm not sure how. The way I do
my scoreing is very heavily weighted on bayes. With high thresholds. After I
have added quite a few mails to the bayes db I rarely get fp's.
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