Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin algorithm question.

2003-09-20 Thread Patrick Morris
Mark London wrote: Does spamassassin simply total up the scores of all the tests which are found to be valid for a message, or does it increase the score based on whether a combination of tests exist? Sometimes. SpamAssassin has both additive rules (each hit is worth a set number of points)

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin algorithm question.

2003-09-20 Thread Fred
Mark London wrote: > Does spamassassin simply total up the scores of all the tests which > are found to be valid for a message, correct > does spamassassin or another other software use > this type of reasoning? Just curious, because I often get low spam > scores for messages which are clearly s

[SAtalk] Spamassassin algorithm question.

2003-09-20 Thread Mark London
Does spamassassin simply total up the scores of all the tests which are found to be valid for a message, or does it increase the score based on whether a combination of tests exist? I.e. the likelihood that a message is spam if it only tests positive for the GUARANTEE test might only be someth