> As you can see, almost the same proportion of mail is scored above 5.0
> (I would expect this) - but now only a fraction of said mail is being
> blocked as spam. To get the same level of blocking on that second day,
> under 2.42, I actually have to lower the threshold from 10 to 
> 6.6 - not a small tweak.
Something that I've not looked at in detail (so this could be way off)
but I believe that the GA is hardcoded with '5' as the threshold it's
aiming for, and the scores it assigns to each rule reflect that.

I've got a sneaking suspicion that all of us who are using scores > 5
as the "it's spam, bin it" threshold with the stock rule values should 
really be re-running the GA locally, tuned for whatever threshold value 
we want -- i.e., you should run it with the GA configured for a threshold 
of 10 to get saner results.

Matt and co., does that sound right to you, or am I misunderstanding
how this all works?

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