[SAtalk] Negative scores for obvious spam attributes?

[Marsha Hanchrow]

I've been manually entering what I thought were the original, default scores for various tests into my user_prefs file.  So many had changed (from late February, when I copied the web page), that I just checked to see if there had been a general change.  What I see makes no sense.

Why in the world is "body Contains at least 3 dollar signs in a row CASHCASHCASH -0.839" now scored as a negative?

And this?  "body Communigate is SPAM software COMMUNIGATE -0.351"

Others:  "body Uses words and phrases which indicate porn (6) PORN_6 -0.991
        body Uses words and phrases which indicate porn (8) PORN_8 -0.994
        body Offers increased sales INCREASE_SALES -1.273

Why is one bad line (and "line of yelling" seems to include a blank subject line, which certainly meets the test of not including any lower case letters) scored higher than multiple lines of yelling?
        body A WHOLE LINE OF YELLING DETECTED LINES_OF_YELLING 2.659
        body 2 WHOLE LINES OF YELLING DETECTED LINES_OF_YELLING_2 1.000
        body 3 WHOLE LINES OF YELLING DETECTED LINES_OF_YELLING_3 1.000

A considerable number of the scores seem a bit odd.  If anyone replies to this, please send your note to me as well as the list, since I'm no longer subscribing.

Thanks,

mh