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? > Note that running a single spam through "spamassassin -a -t" *will* > eventually whitelist the spammer. but that's why the man page tells you > not to do it ;) I just sent myself the same test spam repeatedly. After about 15 copies, a message that initially scored 11 points ended up at -5.5. This explains all of the AWL'd spams I've been seeing recently. The AWL bonus increases by about 1.0 with each message. Is this based on some sort of idea that someone who sends more than x messages must not be a spammer? That's far from true in my experience. I often get 5-10 copies of the same spam from the same sender address. Not to mention the fact that this is a very easy way for spammers to whitelist themselves, just by doing what they do best. I guess it's time to turn off the AWL... -- Michael Moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." --Fran Lebowitz ------------------------------------------------------- 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
