On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:52:00 +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Walter Hurry wrote: > >> I have been using SA on my home box for a couple of months now; really >> more as a learning exercise than anything else. Having noticed that my >> Bayes is almost always right, I tried uncommenting >> >> Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit and >> shortcircuit BAYES_99 spam >> >> in my local.cf. It seems to be working well, but is there a downside? > > > I wouldn't use short-circuiting on a home computer, unless it really > can't cope with the throughput and even then I'd start by > short-circuiting ham. If you want to place more reliance on BAYES then > change it's scores. > > If you short-circuit on BAYES_99 you lose the benefit of negative > scoring rules. You also lose one of SA's best features: the ability to > distinguish between certain spam and probable spam, and that makes it > much harder to spot any FPs.
Sorry for the slight delay replying; I noted your comments and have been monitoring for a couple of days. No, I'm not short of system resources. I think I'll take your advice and cease short-circuiting, and increase the Bayes scores a little bit. Thanks for the recommendation.
