Michael Moncur said: > Justin Mason Wrote: > > > That's exactly what is intended; the idea is that legit senders who > > habitually score just > 5, will eventually get out of "AWL hell" after > > 6-10 messages. > > Whoa. This sounds very wrong to me. What's the difference between a legit > sender who always scores 6.0 and a spammer who always scores 6.0? Or worse, > a spammer who always scores 12.0?
Well, the initial idea behind the AWL was to exploit the fact that spammers typically forge their From addresses randomly, whereas legit senders do not. This was changed around 2.31, and I put it back in for 2.42 since I was seeing some nonspams that could benefit. But to tell the truth, I'm having second thoughts about it too, now. ;) I put it in a few weeks ago, and since then I've noticed a couple of spammers in my feed who are getting through because of this, so it may be time to recant on this point, and remove this behaviour again. The bad points are outweighing the good, unfortunately. I'll check in the reversion now... I guess this means we'll need to do a 2.43 soonish. --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
