I will certainly do the checking -- I would be a lot more wary though if the merging were the other way around -- I think pretty well all of the body checks if matched in the subject would be signs of spam. The converse is not necessarily the case. Also, we're not removing any of the subject checks, so where there is overlap between header vs body rules, the header scores may drop, but it should still work out OK.
We'll see how it goes. C Daniel Pittman wrote: > Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:30:17 +1100 > From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Re: Speed > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > > [...] > > >> Matt, take a look at bugzilla #62 -- there is more discussion of > >> exactly this there. If you re-order the rules, then the only problem > >> with short-circuit scoring is razor submission. If "-L" is used > >> though, this is irrelevant, you can just exit when the threshold is > >> exceeded. It would probably be good to indicate that score evaluation > >> was short-circuited in some header or other (probably just tack on > >> the X-Spam-Status) so people don't get confused. Also, you'll want to > >> make sure none of the "make test" stuff needs adjusting for the new > >> scores some of the mails will get. > > > > OK, all implemented and checked in (along with the other stuff (conf > > ||=, and subject in body). Please test CVS anyone who's interested in > > this. > > I am somewhat dubious about the effects of the subject-in-body change. > It would be really good if someone (Craig ;) were to run SpamAssassin > over the corpus with and without it being make, then compare the > results. > > I have a strong suspicion that it will result in odd effects and, > overall, reduce the effectiveness of the scoring. Rules that were based > on guesswork as to the header content or body content will now flap > wildly. > > Worse, some rules will now score on more things and others less, > resulting (I suspect) in changes to the false positive/negative rates > or, at least, a difficulty in being able to apply them. > > > I think that a better solution would be to tag certain rules as 'header > or body' or 'subject or body' rules, then allow them to score each half > of that 'or' as a separate thing... > > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
