I've suggested this myself; run all of the negative score tests first, then
the positive ones, and stop when you hit threshold.  I'm told there are
architectural reasons why this can't currently be done.

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Thomas
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:04 PM
To: Scott Rothgaber
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Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamd performance


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Scott Rothgaber is rumored to have
said:
>
> If performance is an issue, how about an option like...
>
> HIT_AND_RUN  1
>
> ...that would cause spamd to stop processing once your threshhold had
> been met? IOW why keep scanning text once the message has been
> identified as spam? I'm sure that I'm missing something here but I'd
> like to know the reasons.

There are rules with negative scores, whitelists, etc. You need the _final_
score in order to determine whether or not the message is likely to be spam.


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