I think the piece of the RATWARE test which is falling down is the YMR part.  
Three letters in a row have a pretty good probability of cropping up randomly in 
things like base64 coded docs.  I bet if we take that one out the nonspam rate 
for RATWARE will plummet.

C

Greg Ward wrote:

> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:13:04 -0500
> From: Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Spamassassin-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: GA coming up with wacky scores? was Re: [SAtalk] Announcing
>     2.1 release
> 
> On 27 February 2002, Craig R Hughes said:
> >        181          98          83  RATWARE
> 
> That's interesting.  I wonder if the RATWARE regex is too broad --
> perhaps if it were toned down a bit, it would be better focussed on
> spam.  This ought to be a well-focused rule; how many people use
> spamware to send out regular email?
> 
>         Greg
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