Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Kelson
Paolo Cravero as2594 wrote: Same goes for who asks to unblock certain messages. They are told they can decide to have spam pass through (periodical automatic quarantine unlock, actually). In less than a day they usually beg to restore their antispam protection (and who cares for that job-unrelat

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Ronan McGlue wrote: > why is the weighting for RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB scores 0 0 0 then 0.007... > > I know there is probably a good reason for this low a score but could > someone explain it to me please as I have one very irate user who > likes nothing better than to pick holes in spamassassin, which

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Paolo Cravero as2594
Craig McLean wrote: Or just switch off SA scanning of that customer's mail for a day or so, that should give them an idea of how effective it is... ;-) I am convinced more and more every day that we should turn off SA once every two weeks or so for "maintainance" reasons. Then users will stop com

RE: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Craig McLean
On Thu, April 14, 2005 12:04 pm, Gray, Richard said: [snip] > When we've had to deal with this, I tend to write to write a short email > demonstrating the effectiveness of the tool (produce some statistics on > spam stopped) and point out that there is no way to achieve a 100% > efficiency. Or ju

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Raphael Clifford
Good advice. You might also like to gently remind the user that spam is essentially an attack by a malicious third party and that you are doing your best to defend him. It is NOT a bug in the computer system as I imagine the user likes to think it is. Raphael Gray, Richard wrote: If you felt s

RE: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Gray, Richard
If you felt so inclined, you could get some appropriate ascii art, (perhaps of a middle finger?) and send that through to him. Wouldn't count on your having a job much longer tho. I feel your pain regarding users like that. Some people assume that spam there is an on/off switch for spam, and the