Hi, Just my 2 cents....
I receive on the order of 500 emails per day. I get aliased on support, dns, webmaster and a few others, as well as having my email address archived for all spammers to harvest since 1994. Plus various mailing lists etc... Approx 100 of those a day are spam, some days more than others. I installed the latest version this morning and I have had a 100% hit rate on Spam and a 100% no hit rate on non-spam (including some that got marked as spam in the old version, ie mypoints.com, don't ask it's a wife thing). I'd say the new rules are at least 10 or 20 percent better than the old rules for the e-mail I get, without any false positives today or any leakage into my readable inbox. Regards, Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spamassassin-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:46 PM Subject: Re: GA coming up with wacky scores? was Re: [SAtalk] Announcing 2.1 release On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:28:07PM -0800, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Duncan Findlay wrote: > > > Ummm... I'd be heavily inclined to set these spam scores to 0.01. It's not > > that I don't trust the GA, it's just that if these are the outputs, they > > aren't needed in the first place. > > That's not necessarily the case. They might be needed to reduce false > positives. As I posted a couple messages ago, I think I'll do some amount of > investigation of the tests which are hit by remaining false positives and false > negatives to see which rules are affecting those messages and get a little more > information about what's going on. For the curious, I've attached the frequency > file that the GA used as part of the process of determining these scores. The > format of the file is pretty straightforward. > > C Questional tests: score GAPPY_TEXT -3.667 spam: 261. nonspam: 112. score PORN_8 -5.452 spam: 3. nonspam: 22. score TRACKER_ID -4.899 spam: 9. nonspam: 9 Ridiculous scores: score 25FREEMEGS_URL -4.606 spam: 6. nonspam: 0. score CYBER_FIRE_POWER -4.020 spam: 10. nonspam: 0. score EXCUSE_5 13.447 spam: 10. nonspam: 0. score MONSTERHUT -8.280 spam: 40. nonspam: 0. score ONCE_IN_LIFETIME -4.604 spam: 83. nonspam: 5. -- Duncan Findlay _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
