"false negative" -- spam deemed ham "false positive" -- ham tagged as spam
There's probably other lingo on this list that means the same thing. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Wow, spam with scores as low as 2.1?? > > > simply out of interest, may i ask what you define as a 'false negative'. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin Tomhave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Matt Kettler; Simon Byrnand > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Wow, spam with scores as low as 2.1?? > > > > I'd say that with all checks (bayes, rbl's, razor, dcc etc) > enabled, that > > 5.0 is pretty good for "straight laced" email acounts, and 7 is > reasonable > > for "most people". Any higher than 8 and you start missing a > lot of spam. > > > Given the commentary in this thread and the fact that my bayes seems to be > working better now (deleted the .spamassassin directory, did a rebuild, > and then fed it 650+ spam messages), I have adjusted the settings for my > users as follows for their "sensitivity" options: > Severe = 0.5 (unchanged) > High = 2.0 (changed from 1.5) > Medium = 6.0 (changed from 4.0; this is the new default) > Low = 10.0 (changed from 7.0) > None = 999999 (unchanged; what's the max allowable?) > I'll test with these levels and see how we do with false positives and > false negatives. I was motivated to make this change after noticing that > with the reloaded bayes, scores were tending to be much higher. > > cheers, > > -ben > > -- > Benjamin Tomhave, Senior Systems Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sofast Communications www.sofast.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. > www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. > www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
