Rob Winters wrote: RW> SA does not give any credit to the cumulative effect that would be obvious RW> to any human reading the "tests=" line, let alone the message itself. I RW> mean, look at *this* one!"
This is currently true, and is basically a function of how the score-setting (and score evaluation) works. I have been doing some minor dabbling with modified scoring schemes, where the combination of scores is not a simple sum, but haven't spent long enough on it yet to really say anything definite about whether there's a better way of scoring. I'm sure there's some interesting work here for any CS master's thesis if someone's interested. Some kind of nonlinear combination of scores maybe? Or scores based not only on single rules, but also on rule pairs, at least for the common pairings? RW> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.0 required=5.0 RW> tests=SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,CLICK_BELOW,WEB_BUGS,MAILTO_LINK,RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC RW> version=2.20 RW> RW> It's freakin' toxic, and it gets a 4? SEVEN rule hits? Hmm... might be SPAM. RW> RW> How about a "bonus" for cumulative effect? Why not do a second-level RW> analysis after scoring; something like: RW> RW> 3 positive score matches - add 1.0 RW> 4 positive score matches - add 2.0 RW> 5 positive score matches - add 4.0 RW> 6 positive score matches - add 8.0 This is I think a little too simplistic -- and if it were correct to do this, it'd be reflected to some extent in the current scores. It's slightly more complex than the current scoring system, but I think one of the other suggestions above would yield better results. In particular, I think the rules you mention above should take into account negative-scoring rules. 3 negative scoring rules being triggered should yield a negative bonus, not a positive one... C _______________________________________________________________ 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
