At 08:22 AM 7/29/2005, Matthew Yette wrote:
I've been getting emails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] which my
spam filter rightly tags as spam. However, the rules it flags are as
follows:
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.7 required=5.0
What troubles me is the AWL score.
It should not.
Pulling up stats on the email address
from the AWL database, it has a count of 8 and a totalscore of 50.168.
Wouldn't this mean that the score it would assign the message for AWL
would be something like 6.1? Not a -0.6?
No. The total score is the TOTAL score.. not the AWL tracked average..
AWL total score 50.168:
AWL count: 8
AWL average: 6.271
Current score 6.7, thus the AWL should subtract, not add. Remember, the AWL
doesn't add it's score, it tries to split the difference between the
historical average and the current message. Since the historical average is
less than the current score, it has to subtract.
In order to add +6.1, the AWL average would have to be 18.9, which it isn't.
Besides.. you should NOT be troubled by negative AWL scores on spam. This
is *completely* normal and does NOT mean the AWL thinks the message is
nonspam.. In this case, the AWL still felt the message was spam, as the AWL
average score is 6.2.
Read:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AwlWrongWay
