Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Barnes wrote on Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:03:20 -0500: > >> I am more concerned about the false positives. Looking at the >> headers of those messages that are legit, it seems that the biggest >> score comes from the BAYES test. >> >> Is there a place that talks about how that score is derived? > > I'm not sure what you mean, did you already check out > spamassassin.org?
Yes. Unfortunately it did not talk about how the Bayesnian score is calculated (or if it did, I missed it). > Apart from this, your ISP is the correct contact > here. You are their customer they have to answer you. Sadly, like most companies (not just ISP's) - their response was "if you pay for a higher level of service, you can turn off SA". However, they do seem to be willing to look at the configuration settings that SA is using, but it would help if I could tell them what configurations settings to use. read that to say: if I tell them what to use, they'll probably adjust the settings. But if I don't they're going to stick with the same defaults that are causing the problems. Another thread on this forum has already proved helpful. It said that the Baynesian tests are useful only on an individual basis - on an ISP level they are much, MUCH less useful. It also said that the default setting is still to have it turned "on". > It seems >> that when I have a friend that uses HTML formatting (or heaven >> forbid, Incredimail) they have a MUCH higher chance of being tagged >> as a spammer. > > If they make heavy use of colors, font size etc.: yes. Incredimail also puts a "click here" (in html formatting) at the bottom of everyone of their email messages. Of course, a multi-word Bayes test would check for "click here" AND Incredimail's tag line and flag it as NONspam. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
