Machines don't do all things better than do humans. In particular, they're very bad at making educated guesses in an absence of actual data. So rules which are triggered infrequently in the corpus used by the GA are not evolved, but just set by hand. This includes all the network-related rules, since mass-check does not cover those rules. It also includes rules which have been found to create lots of false positives if used at the GA-evolved scores. It includes the whitelist/blacklist scores, since those are somewhat absolute, and in particular it's deemed (well by me, others have different views) important that they're polar opposites of each other. If you browse the 50_scores.cf file, the comments ahead of each section more or less explain why any scores not set by the GA aren't. The section at the end is simply those rules where there wasn't enough data in the corpus to justify allowing the GA to modify the scores. Doesn't mean that those rules don't show up at all; just that they don't show up more than a small handful of times. As to your false-pos/false-neg problem, I would encourage turning on autowhitelisting (-a option to spamd or spamassassin) to reduce false positives, and turn on all network tests, including razor and DCC, to reduce false-negatives.
C Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: KGMJ> I installed SA 2.20 a few days ago and it's KGMJ> mis-categorizing more emails than I'd like. I'll KGMJ> *guess* that it's missing 10% of spams and KGMJ> mislabelling 1% of my legitimate email as spam. KGMJ> KGMJ> The obvious explanation is that I'm doing something KGMJ> wrong, like not using razor or spamd. KGMJ> KGMJ> However, I noticed that only some scores in KGMJ> /etc/spamassassin/50_scores.cf were optimized by the KGMJ> genetic algorithm. KGMJ> KGMJ> It seems to me that SA would work more coherently if KGMJ> ALL its rules' scores were optimized in the KGMJ> evolutionary cauldron. KGMJ> KGMJ> Am I missing something? _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
