On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:21:59 -0700, Jeff Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is version 3 really any better at stopping spam that 2.63?
Version 3 stops different spam than 2.63, in my experience so far. E.g. it's better at catching the drug spam but not as good at the "earn cash for making phone calls" spam. If you use full network tests, I suspect 3.0000001 (did I get enough zeroes? too many?) is actually better than 2.63/2.64. Using it in local only mode, though, I've found it not very different. The spams that get through 3.x that do not get through 2.6x are generally (a) those that match BAYES_99, which by itself in the default configuration is no longer a large enough score to make me happy, or (b) would have been tagged as spam except that the AWL "smoothed" them down to just below the threshhold. I confess with some embarrassment that I haven't yet looked into how to turn off the AWL in spamd. Statement (b) above comes from running the same messages through "spamassassin -t" and having them marked as spam with the only difference in the latter case being the absence of an AWL hit.
