On Thursday, December 1, 2011, 10:11:35 AM, Darxus Darxus wrote: > On 12/01, Jeff Chan wrote: >> Also keep in mind that PH has a generally low score even for net >> + bayes since it doesn't hit a large portion of spam in the SA >> corpus.
> No. Scores are not determined by how many spams a rule hits. Scores are > automatically generated to correctly flag as many spams as possible > without exceeding 1 false positive in every 2500 hams (with a > required_score of 5). > Stated in > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/rules/50_scores.cf > (a file you get via sa-update) > So it's entirely possible to have a rule that hits a very small percentage > of spam with a very large score. Thanks for the correction. I actually knew that but remembered incorrectly. :( Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/
