Sorry if this has been discussed in the past... I'd like to bring up the subject of the scoring of different rules which have, IMHO, a very high likelyhood of being spam but are scored rather low. And I noticed a somewhat related fact, that there is no one rule that in itself decides something IS spam, no matter how incredibly likely it is. In other words, there exists no rule with a score over 5 points.
Some of those examples I included below. Some checks get scored unreasonably low in listing 1, and some that -in my opinion- deserve to get scored higher than 5 points, in listing 2. And this is only a very small subset. Of course this is open to debate, but then again that's all I want; possibly a debate about how accurate the scoring is right now... List 1: score ALL_CAP_PORN 0.650 0.669 0 0 score PENIS_ENLARGE2 0.500 0.590 0 0.501 score UPPERCASE_50_75 0.794 1.137 0 0 score V+AG+A_ONLINE 1.100 1.101 3.151 4.056 If it were up to me, I'd say that giving only half a point to a mail that scores PENIS_ENLARGE2 is... well, ludicrous. Let's not kid ourselves. IF there are people who participate on a genuine mailinglist that discusses penis enlargement, let the burden fall on them to put those adresses in their whitelist, not the reverse. List 2: score SUBJ_V+AG+A 2.535 2.816 4.095 4.100 score INVALUABLE_MARKETING 2.900 2.800 1.119 0.701 I have problems with these scores. They are high, sure, but why isn't SUBJ_V+AG+A in itself, all by itself enough to score, say, six points ? (or twenty for my part). Is there really ANYONE who believes that a mail with such a subject could in fact be something other than spam ? Just being curious at how this system came about... Now of course the problem is getting this mail to the list. Cause with all these words and phrases in it, it's sure to register as spam, right ? ;-| ( In fact I had to rewrite the V-word for it to get through sourceforge ) Regards, Maarten -- This email has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. Maarten J. H. van den Berg ~~//~~ network administrator VBVB - Amsterdam - The Netherlands - http://vbvb.nl T +31204233288 F +31204233286 G +31651994273 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
