Hello Brad, Monday, January 5, 2004, 8:58:25 PM, you wrote:
BK> I've been getting a bunch of messages either squeaking by SA 2.61 or BK> nearly so (bigevil is nice), and added some rules to make them less BK> likely (I couldn't come up with a better name than glop, sorry): BK> describe glop_15 15 or more alphas in sequence BK> body glop_15 /[a-zA-Z]{15}/ BK> score glop_15 1.0 BK> describe glop_20 20 or more alphas in sequence BK> body glop_20 /[a-zA-Z]{20}/ BK> score glop_20 4.0 BK> descibe glop_25 25 or more alphas in sequence BK> body glop_25 /[a-zA-Z]{25}/ BK> score glop_25 5.0 glop_15 -- 39425s/4835h of 85945 corpus (70035s/15910h) Some words matched by this rule: # glop_15="recommendations" # glop_15="disqualificatio" n # glop_15="misunderstandin" g # glop_15="extraordinarily" # glop_15="interpretations" # glop_15="Congratulations" and a whole bunch of PGP signatures Need I say more? glop_20 -- 18578s/1376h of 85945 corpus (70035s/15910h) glop_20="contractorswarehouse" .com (my domain) glop_20="XXXXXOOOOOXOXOXOXOXO" (a boundary between sections of email) glop_20="internationalization" glop_20="NeuschwabenlandTimes" glop_20="anthropomorphization" glop_20="electrophysiological" and a whole bunch of PGP signatures glop_25 -- 5497s/205h of 85945 corpus (70035s/15910h) glop_25="MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM" glop_25="communityservicesincorpor" glop_25="Bcccccccccccccccccccccccc" glop_25="wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" glop_25="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" glop_25="futureofamericandemocracy" glop_25="AlbertSherbertOrangehalfg" glop_25="ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ" glop_25="villagemarketHamBrownSuga" glop_25="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy" and a whole bunch of PGP signatures. Most telling, I run with a 9.0 required hits threshold. Your three rules resulted in 205 false positives (all ham that matched glop_25). OVERALL% SPAM% HAM% S/O RANK SCORE NAME 85945 70035 15910 0.815 0.00 0.00 (all messages) 100.000 81.4882 18.5118 0.815 0.00 0.00 (all messages as %) 6.634 7.8489 1.2885 0.859 0.59 5.00 glop_25 23.217 26.5267 8.6486 0.754 0.39 4.00 glop_20 51.498 56.2933 30.3897 0.649 0.27 1.00 glop_15 Bob Menschel ------------------------------------------------------- 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