Martin, The real egregious spams score up in the 20's and 30's, and the vast majority score over 12. What we review represents only a tiny fraction of the received spam, and some of the "sham" which is hardest to categorize.
Pierre -----Original Message----- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:10 AM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? Pierre glad to see you've got time to check this email - I leave this to the users :-) tends to be 1-2 per user per day, if that..much better than the 80+ spams a day they where getting! -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Pierre Thomson wrote: > I quarantine mail scoring between 6.0 and 12.0 (it's 99% spam) using > MailScanner's quarantine system. It's delivered to a spambox that I check > hourly during the day. We get only a couple of true FP's per week, and the > last two were from two different AOL addresses. > > For a quick fix, I took AOL off the list of "webmail" providers list in the > FROM_WEBMAIL_END_NUMS6 test. I'll admit that it's a bit unusual to use SIX > digits to make your name unique; addresses with than many digits are likely > to be bogus. > > Pierre
