Matt Kettler writes:
> Adam Katz wrote:
> > Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> >
> >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> >
> >
> >> The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
> >> generates the
>...
>That's where the human tweaking is supposed to happen; if gobs of spam
>flag the 80% meter of some test while no ham does, and the 90% meter is
>almost never hit by anything, it should have a higher value than the 80%
>meter does. If the 90% meter has more ham than spam despite the 80% meter
Adam Katz wrote:
> Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
>>
>
> Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
>
>
>> The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
>> generates the scores) are concerned, rules are independent
Adam Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, John D. Hardin wrote:
>
>> The default scores are generated by analyzing their performance
>> against hand-categorized corpa of actual emails. If a rule hits spam
>> often and ham rarely, it will be given a higher score than one that
>> hits spam often and
Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> The short version is that as far as SA and the perceptron (that which
> generates the scores) are concerned, rules are independent. There is no
> "increase in severity", eit
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, John D. Hardin wrote:
> The default scores are generated by analyzing their performance
> against hand-categorized corpa of actual emails. If a rule hits spam
> often and ham rarely, it will be given a higher score than one that
> hits spam often and ham occasionally.
That soun
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:58:37PM -0500, Adam Katz wrote:
> Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
> SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores in
> html obfuscation, dates set in the future, and spf marking:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowS
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Adam Katz wrote:
> Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
> SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores in
> html obfuscation, dates set in the future, and spf marking:
The default scores are generated by analyzing their performan
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Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example,
SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores
