That's a tough one Lenny. There is no company that produces Spamassassin. It's a free open source collaboration by individuals who contribute their time. It's not a commercial product.
The Bayesian classifier in Spamassassin is trained by the user, and by very high scoring spam. Spamassassin doesn't come with any training that would give your email any score at all. Hopefully there will be better solutions to the spam problem in the next few years. Meanwhile we're all being handicapped by it. Best regards, Mojo On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, schafer wrote: > To Spamassassin: > > My publication is double-opted in by 15,000 families with children with > autism. We are routinely victimized by incompetent software like > spamassassin because of false positives. This is just as intolerable as > spam. It is worse than spam because it victimizes the innocent in the name > of stopping spam. (And it may even be a violation of the Americans With > Disabilities Act which prohibits discrimination against the disabled) It is > rank hypocricy. > False positives are intolerable and commercial products that allow them > should be outlawed as much as spam should be. > > I do not know if this is the right place to complain as I could not find an > email address that offers feedback to the company. This arrogance stinks, > too. As if software developers don't need public feedback about their junky > products. > > This piece of junk software rates my publication 99%-100% likely to be spam. > > "* 3.0 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 99 to 100%" > > Ha! What crap. The offending email is also parked at this website page: > > http://home.doitnow.com/~edit/index.htm > > Lenny Schafer > Schafer Autism Report > > Exhibit: > > ---- Start SpamAssassin results > 7.10 points, 5.5 required; > * -0.1 -- Message-Id indicates the message was sent from MS Exchange > * 0.9 -- BODY: No such thing as a free lunch (3) > * 0.5 -- BODY: No Fees > * 0.5 -- BODY: Possible porn - Hot, Nasty, Wild, Young > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML link text says "click here" > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color is red > * 0.2 -- BODY: FONT Size +2 and up or 3 and up > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color not within safe 6x6x6 palette > * 1.5 -- BODY: Message is 20% to 30% HTML > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag > * 0.2 -- BODY: JavaScript code > * 0.1 -- BODY: HTML font color is blue > * 3.0 -- BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probability is 99 to 100% > [score: 0.9988] > * 0.2 -- BODY: HTML contains unsafe auto-executing code > * 2.9 -- BODY: HTML has very strong "shouting" markup > * 0.4 -- URI: Uses %-escapes inside a URL's hostname > * 0.7 -- URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email address > * 0.0 -- Asks you to click below > * -4.3 -- AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment > ---- End of SpamAssassin results > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. > Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's > Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. > Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > -- Morris Jones <*> Monrovia, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.whiteoaks.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
