You are correct except that what I suspect is missing from this discussion is that rfcignorant really has *nothing* to do with spam. It *only* has to do with whether one is a uunet customer.
*COUGH* Yeah.. having no administrative contact has absolutely nothing to do with how well a domain accepts spam reports.. really.. yeah.. whatever.
It has absolutely nothing to do with a UUnet customer, it has everything to do with being a customer of an ISP that doesn't have proper RFC REQUIRED administrative contacts. And UUnet is not the only ISP listed here, despite your blatantly incorrect claims to the contrary.
As for having nothing to do with spam, I suspect STATISTICS.txt tells the story by far better than you or I can..
STATISTICS-set1.txt: 10.561 16.3978 3.8720 0.809 0.52 1.45 RCVD_IN_RFCI
.809 isn't exactly the most steallar S/O in the world, but you certainly can't say that there's no correlation when 80.9% of the emails that match this rule are spam.
If you've got some useful, factual information, please follow up.. but as far as I can tell, you've just got a chip on your shoulder against RFCI and are making a large quantity of presumptive statements without any facts backing them up. You're probably frustrated because some sites do MTA layer 5xx blocking based on RFC-ignorant and bounce mail back to you. This bouncing has absolutely nothing to do with spamassassin's use of RFCI as a weak statistical correlation with spam, so please leave whatever bias you have based on MTA blocking out of these conversations.
As far as I can tell, the statistics show RFCI does have a noticeable, although not strong, correlation and that's exactly what SA is supposed to do.. Not all rules are supposed to be 100% free of false positive cases.. that's why they score LOW.
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