> At 19:47 24/09/2003 -0400, Gerry Doris wrote:
>
>
>>SA 2.60 is giving a dynablock hit a wopping 2.62 score!!!  It isn't
>> really
>>a problem that your SA is hitting this rule (you can always turn it off).
>>The real problem is that everyone else's SA 2.60 is doing the same.  If
>>they retain the default 7 spam score then your message is already more
>>than a third of the way to being marked as spam.  Since many reduce the
>>default to something like 5 then you're over half way to being spam.
>
> The SpamAssassin default has always been 5, its never been 7 to my
> knowledge. The GA also optimizes scores based on a threshold of 5.
>
> Having said that *our* sitewide default is 7 because even with 2.55 I
> notice too many false positives with 5. (Not on the kind of mail that *I*
> receive, but many of our customers....)
>
> Regards,
> Simon

You're right.  I stand corrected.  I had too many false positives so I set
the default at 7 a loooong time ago.  I forgot it wasn't actually the
default...that's what age will do for you!

Gerry



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