On Saturday, February 18, 2006, 10:27:23 PM, Matt Kettler wrote:
> I've proven a problem exists.. Submitting delist requests will NOT work
> as a sole fix it because it's just going to happen again. and again, and
> again. Yes, delists are a good thing. But we need to realize that human
> error will continue to happen, and thus the spammassassin rules need to
> be structured accordingly.

It depends on the rate of FPs.  If they are relatively rare, and
it seems they are, then delists may be an appropriate or at least
workable solution.

> Can we address the real question here:

> How can we keep the spam tagged, and try to mitigate the FPs by keeping
> additive scores for multiple URIBLs more moderate? +20 worth of URIBL
> hits is fine on spam, but astronomically high scores don't really help
> SA when the tagging threshold is +5. However, they do hurt SA when
> overlapping mistakes happen.

Perhaps that's an appropriate question for the SpamAssassin
developers.

Jeff C.
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