On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Michael Moncur wrote:
>> To me, -ve scores on tests can also be used to "offset" spammy
>> messages in clean email. I have several of these of my own creation:
>
> Well, yes, that's true - SpamAssassin already includes a bunch of
> these, such as COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED and PHP_SIGNATURE. What I was talking
> about was the fact that several items that weren't originally intended
> as indicators of non-spam have been given large negative scores, for
> example:
>
> score 25FREEMEGS_URL -4.606
> score BE_AMAZED -4.581
> score MONSTERHUT -8.280
> score ONCE_IN_LIFETIME -4.604
>
> While some of the negative scores (like DEAR_SOMEBODY) might have
> really turned into legitimate indicators of non-spam, I don't think
> any message deserves having its spam score reduced by 8 points by
> virtue of its mentioning "www.monsterhut.com", a well-known spam
> source.
Maybe it helps to know that I, personally, have a reasonable quantity of
correspondence that discusses "monsterhut.com", almost zero of which is
SPAM.
They don't tend to talk about themselves while messages about them tend
to be one of two things -- a discussion about SPAM from them or a
request for assistance in litigation against them by the ISP they are
still forcing, through court order, to serve as their upstream.
The GA may have noticed this and decided that containing the URL of
monsterhut while talking about SPAM /reduced/ the chance of it actually
being SPAM.
NB: I didn't actually /read/ the rule, though, just acted on what you
said about it.
Daniel
--
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated.
It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all
the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
-- W.R. Inge
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