Hello Matt, Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 6:36:03 PM, you wrote:
>> >> > 4.0 (Medium), >> >>Oww. >> >>These three settings are going to give you false positives galore. MK> 4.0 isn't all that bad.. according to STATISTICS.txt 4.0 should give you MK> 0.44% FP rate in v 2.54, which is a lot more than the 0.08% for 5.0, but MK> not quite insane. Once custom rules and whitelisting are used, it *really* depends on the particular system configuration. I've got a 4.0 threshold and very rarely see a false positive - I turned it down to 4 from 5 because there were too many false negatives getting through. But I'm managing an in-house server for a company and it was fairly easy to set up a basic whitelist and a few negative-point rules specifically geared to company business that are pretty effective. It's just a matter of figuring out what common phrases or word combinations "good" email is likely to have. When I have seen false positives it is often from people who simply got too creative with their email program - huge fonts, many colors, exclamation points !!!, etc. I sometimes send them back their email with the SA scoring to show them why they would do well to tone things down a little. But the bottom line is you simply have to watch your own email and adjust things accordingly. -Abigail ------------------------------------------------------- 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/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
