I can see how plugins and add-on rules all affect it, but certainly
they have some sort of base comparison that lets them know when they've
gotten the right score values for the base rules, right?
On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:22 AM, Sietse van Zanen wrote:
I think such a thing would be very difficult. Because scoring is
mostly dependant on your personal configuration of SA. The more
plugins you use, the higher the score will be. And that is independant
of spam probability.
You might be able to compare bayes probabilities with SA scores, but
automating it would be very, very difficult.
-Sietse
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From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 26-Jul-06 12:13
To: SpamAssassin Users
Subject: SA Score -> Confidence Percentage
Does anyone have a scale that compares the SA score to a "percent
likelihood that the message is spam"?
Something like "a score of 5 is a 75% chance than the message is spam".
But I don't want it just for a score of 5. What I'd like is for
scores of 1-10. And I'd also like to see it for percentage likelihoods
of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99
(and maybe 100, but I expect that wont be meaningful) (so, I can say
"an 80% likelihood happens at a score of 6" or something).
It seems as though something like this must be done to keep the right
amount of the base spam/ham corpus used with the GA within expected
values. But I haven't ever seen an actual rating along these lines.
Hopefully it's not in a completely obvious place that I've
overlooked...
