When a new release comes out I like to be anal-retentive and go through the GA second-guessing its scores. This is my report for 2.30.
Overall, the GA did a NICE job this time. I have very little to complain about and haven't found a single score I'll be bothering to override. Here are a few scores I think came out really well: - Advert codes are, of course, a good indicator score ADVERT_CODE 4.725 - Spam phrases are actually turning out useful this time score FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE 2.417 score SPAM_PHRASES_020 2.139 score SPAM_PHRASES_040 2.424 - New uppercase frequency checks work well score UPPERCASE_25_50 1.937 score UPPERCASE_50_75 2.972 score UPPERCASE_75_100 2.990 - Future dates are a surprisingly good spam indicator score DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 3.416 score DATE_IN_FUTURE_06_12 2.385 score DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24 3.308 score DATE_IN_FUTURE_24_48 3.657 score DATE_IN_FUTURE_48_96 2.887 score DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX 3.463 - RATWARE must be fixed, it was negative last time score RATWARE 4.563 - This works well for me but users in some countries may want to change it score SUBJ_FULL_OF_8BITS 4.298 And a few slightly questionable scores: - This was 0.87 before. Less and less useful? score FROM_AND_TO_SAME -2.071 - Not as weird as all that, apparently score MSGID_CHARS_WEIRD -2.178 - Disappointing, perhaps porn_word_test() needs tweaking score PORN_3 0.522 - Lots of missing dates in non-spam? score DATE_MISSING -2.140 Just for the record, here's the usual list of rules that ended up with slightly negative scores. They aren't really good rules for catching nonspam, so I think the rules are likely either defective or obsolete. score ASCII_FORM_ENTRY -1.660 score ASKS_BILLING_ADDRESS -0.152 score DEAR_SOMEBODY -0.694 score EXCUSE_16 -0.721 score FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD -0.356 score FROM_NAME_NO_SPACES -0.114 score GREEN_EXCUSE_1 -2.019 score INTL_EXEC_GUILD -0.039 score LINES_OF_YELLING -0.036 score MONEY_BACK -0.239 score MONEY_MAKING -0.687 score NO_REAL_NAME -1.068 score SUBJ_ALL_CAPS -0.054 score SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK -0.135 score SUBJ_REMOVE -0.823 score SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS -0.213 score WEB_BUGS -0.430 score X_AUTH_WARNING -0.703 score X_ESMTP -1.662 score X_MSMAIL_PRIORITY_HIGH -0.886 score X_NOT_PRESENT -1.920 score MAILTO_TO_REMOVE -1.669 All in all, I believe the GA is really smarter than I am this time. :) -- michael moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else." -- Woody Allen _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
