> I seem to be getting a (presumably) unusally high number of false > positives. I'm up to 21 in the past week, on an input of 1540 > messages. (Damn, I am on too many mailing lists.) This is about 1.3%,
I think the list wisdom goes with whitelisting mailing lists. But then you lose the ability to filter spam from those lists themselves. So I avoid that. > 1) Any tips for reducing this number? Most of the messages are not > especially private, so I can forward them or put them on the web > somewhere if people want. I don't want to bombard the list with my > mailspool though. One thing that I do is that a couple of lists have header/footer content that looks like spam. I derate that to get back to zero. Here is an example. # WinterPark Snow Report always includes a footer good for 8.6 points. header WINTER_PARK_LIST Subject =~ /^Winter Park Snow Report/ describe WINTER_PARK_LIST Winter Park Mailing list score WINTER_PARK_LIST -8.6 As a general comment a couple of the mailing lists that I am on have people who post messages that violate every netiquette there is and often get trapped in the filter. I consider that a plus. But I do clean those messages out of the spam trap so that it won't confuse the results of training spam filters on the trapped mail in the future. This is not quite what you were asking. But perhaps it will spark another idea. Bob _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
