-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Daniel,
Saturday, July 19, 2003, 7:28:56 PM, you wrote: DC> I am trying to figure out now to use the test scores of SpamAssassin. DC> I found the page with the list of tests, but there's something I DC> could not find out: DC> If I want a more stringent test, do I pick higher score numbers or DC> smaller numbers? Spam is identified by high scores, Non-spam is identified by significant negative scores, and questionable email is in the middle. DC> Suppose, for instance, that I am sure that I should never get a DC> legitimate email with the word "viagara" in the title. What score DC> should I pick to make sure that no email with the word "viagara" on DC> the title will ever ever ever make it to my inbox? header MY_VIAGRA Subject =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i describe MY_VIAGRA Subject mentions viag[a]ra score MY_VIAGRA 555.55 DC> I have taken some time to make a pretty exhaustive "white list". Now DC> I want to make stringent tests so I stop getting spam. I'm assuing that by *NEVER* you mean that even if a whitelisted email contains "viagara" in the subject, you want it flagged as spam. That's why I've given it a 555 score. If a whitelist is supposed to override your viagara test, then the score should probably be 20-90. I run my systems with a required hit score of 9.0. I therefore set my "I *KNOW* this is spam" scores to 9.1 or thereabouts. This gives my "not spam" rules a decent chance to bring the email's score down into the "questionable" range. If you were a pharmacist or doctor who needed to receive emails asking about viagra, you'd probably want to score rules with the word(s) unmasked with negative scores. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPxoeMpebK8E4qh1HEQJcOQCffI7BrTjfkDJoMz26NvJCioBHDJMAoPon 0JUCllN9iTrqGBPJyVMPmZGu =Y61n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
