Sidney Markowitz writes: >On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 17:52, William R Ward wrote: >> Hmm, looks like I was wrong. It does apparently have spammish >> headers. I don't know anything about osirusoft.com, but spamassassin >> says it's a spammer > >Actually I would say that I was wrong. Spamassassin did not think that >the body was spam. I guess I would be annoyed if someone sent me an >unsolicited solicitation for a donation, but spamassassin is smart >enough to separate that from the various scams and ads that spammers >actually do send out.
They're not looking for a donation, they're looking for fodder for their publicity. They want people who've had success with one of their products (and it's a good product, IMHO) to give testimonials that could be used in a TV show. >osirusoft.com is not a spammer. They run a DNS server that programs like >spamassassin can use to look up an ip address that is in a mail header >to see if it belongs to a spammer or an open relay that is used by >spammers. You have to take some of databases there with a grain of salt, >as some are a bit overzealous in adding ip addresses to their list. Interesting, thanks. >I run using the -L option to disable all network based checks since I >found that it took seconds to check one email with them and a small >fraction of a second without them, and they had too many false positives >compared to the little bit of extra spam they caught. I may do that. >If you disable the network checks your email would have passed with a >score of just 2.4. > >I believe that Craig runs the rule scoring without any of the network >checks, which would make it too slow, so the scores are optimized >without them. Thanks. I think that borrowing data from the network checks and incorporating it into SpamAssassin's rules would end up being more efficient, since it would replace all those repeated lookups with a much quicker rulebase check. --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
