After upgrading to SA 3.0, I noticed a lot of spam with subject lines including SEXUALLY- EXPLICIT started to get through, even though there were existing rules that were meant specifically to catch them. I first boosted the score of the rules that catch these messages from 10 to 100 (2 rules, see below), and saw that the ones that formerly "got through" were getting AWL scores in the negative 100-120 range. This morning a few *still* go through, so I boosted the score of those rules from 100 to *1000*. The next two messages snagged got AWL scores in the negative *thousand* range.
I read the FAQ on how AWL is supposed to work, but that doesn't seem to explain how messages can end up with such seemingly gigantic AWL scores. Does an AWL negative score somehow go "deeper" in response to very high positive SA scores? Nothing like this happened with 2.6. I'm not disappointed with 3.0 (it works extremely well otherwise), I'm just deeply puzzled. Did I mis a FAQ note somewhere? Screw up the upgrade somehow? Am I just completely misreading what's going on? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
This is (from what i understand) how AWL is supposed to work. You could lower the score to -999999999 and AWL would bring it right back up to +999999999. Its supposed to sort of average things out. The real question here is why is it trying to AWL it at all. That, unfortunately, i dont have an answer for. I dont use AWL specifically because of things like this. I have never been able to get it to work correctly. Or maybe it was working correctly and i just never understood it. Either way, im happy without it.
-Jim
