On Fri, 10 May 2024, Thomas Barth wrote:
So now I repeat my question: is it possible to increase the minimum
value to 0.1 by default?
Not really.
The score for a rule is either a fixed value assigned by the rule
developer or a dynamic value calculated by masscheck nightly. There isn't
a "macro" for informational scores that would affect them all at once;
each informational rule would have to be updated individually.
And they are considered *informational* - they should not by themselves
contribute to the ham/spam score, so a request to globally change the
informational score from 0.0001 or 0.001 to 0.1 would not be approved.
For example, there is a rule that matches large monetary quantities in
multiple formats and languages. That rule is used in combination with
other rules to look for spam signs. It's scored as informational simply to
expose the fact that the message has content like that, but by itself it
doesn't indicate hammy or spammy content - the message could be a 419
spam, or it could be a news article about the deficit.
Note that poorly-performing rules may get a score that looks
informational, but that may change over time based on the corpora.
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