Gotcha Matt - thank you very much for the explaination. I was under the (false) assumption that the AWL factor for a message was simply the total score of all messages from that sender divided by the number of messages from the sender. I didn't realize it was not just that number, but that number compared to the actual score of the current message, and the difference of that marks the final score for AWL.
Thanks for the insight! I read the wiki on it but must have come away w/ the wrong impression. Thanks again! -- Matthew Yette Senior Engineer - NOC/Operations MA Polce Consulting, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 315-838-1644 (w) 315-356-0597 (f) AIM/Yahoo: MAPolceNOC MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:33 AM To: Matthew Yette; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: AWL 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
