Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-13 Thread Dave Kliczbor
Carl Chipman sagte: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I > had set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was > very high. I was looking at some of the big-evil stuff and noticed > that many of the scores were 3.0 by themselves... > > Does e

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Carl, Monday, January 12, 2004, 7:32:57 AM, you wrote: CC> What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had CC> set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very CC> high. I was looking at some of the big-evil stuff and noticed that many of C

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Brian May
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score Above 5 and it goes into the SPAM folder, but these are at least cursorily examined before trashing. Above 10 and it goes directly into the trash, never to be seen again. mh At 07:32 AM Mo

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Mark H
Above 5 and it goes into the SPAM folder, but these are at least cursorily examined before trashing. Above 10 and it goes directly into the trash, never to be seen again. mh At 07:32 AM Monday1/12/2004, Carl Chipman wrote: What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Carl Chipman wrote: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had > set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very > high. I was looking at some of the big-evil stuff and noticed that many of > the scores were 3.0 by

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Oliver Thalmann
I let 5.0 works quite fine, except for - some "technical publicity" (palmpowered.com comes to mind) - broken mail clients who send mail in 8bit raw (instead of encoded mime) - some newsletters whose editors apparently haven't read a book "howto do clean html" - some new style nigerian scam, writt

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Brett Simpson
On Monday 12 January 2004 10:32 am, Carl Chipman wrote: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had > set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very > high. I was looking at some of the big-evil stuff and noticed that many of > the scores w

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 January 2004 07:32, Carl Chipman wrote: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had > set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very > high. I was looking at some of the big-evil s

RE: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Paul Barbeau
I got a number of FP when i was using 5.0 so i am using 5.5 to mark and then 6.7 to delete. I would have liked to use 5 however to may client where getting message tagged as spam that where not). I have only deleted 1 message by mistake in 25000 emails since friday and it was a "special" user lol

RE: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Mike Carlson
I have ours set to 5.5. With 5.0 I had too many false positives. Our company came to the conclusion that a few missed spams were better than a few missed sales requests so we just deal with the handful of emails that get past the filter.   --Mike     From: Carl ChipmanSent: Mon 1/12/2004 9:32

RE: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Santerre
Yes, I use the 5.0 default. My Bigevil rules go against my own recommendations. The majority of my custom rules are between .33 and .55 in score. But Bigevil is designed to hit 100% spam. It is the only set I have scored high. FPs are taken care of right away. I don't deliver the spam at 7.0 or h

RE: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Robert Lacroix
yep 5.0. Works great for us. /robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Chipman Sent: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 16:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Your threshold score What do most people who write new SA rules set their thresh

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread cami
What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very high. I was looking at some of the big-evil stuff and noticed that many of the scores were 3.0 by themselves... Does everyone just use the 5.0 that com

RE: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Alan Munday
Carl I think you will find that there are many different ways that people configure there SA. Here I: mark at 5.0 (occasional FP's) Delete at 10.0 (No FP's.. Yet) Alan > -Original Message- > Behalf Of Carl Chipman > Sent: 12 January 2004 15:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Mat Harris
i use the default of 5 and it gets all spam except the MS update virii which nearly always score 4.7 On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:32:57 -0600, Carl Chipman wrote: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had > set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive