On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Justin Mason wrote:
> BTW, SpamAssassin originally started with accumulating rules. But I took
> it out, as it meant a long hammy mail had a much higher chance of FP'ing,
> due to containing more text.
>
> I'd be worried that accumulating hits would reintroduce the same
> problem...
>
> - --j.
Easy way to deal with that, divide the accumulated score by a factor
based upon the message size.
EG, if I see 20 '<BR>' tags in a 1Kbyte message it has a high probability
of being spam but if that message is 30Kbytes then it's lower.
Dave
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