Skip wrote:
can you be more explicit. you got FPs with how many ','? did you have
an FP with 100?
Sure. When I ran it against my inbox, with 4587 "good" emails, I had
130 hits on MATCH20 and 2 hits on MATCH50, or 2.877% (0 with
MATCH100). The interesting thing is, if you think about it, people
who routinely send emails to lots of people (jokes, family updates,
whatever--you know who I mean), well, I think they will be on most
people's whitelists in the first place. A compete stranger, or even
someone who you do know, probably isn't going to send you an email
along with 49 of his/her closest friends as his first email to you.
Although, it is not beyond the realm of possibility. For instance, I
am starting a new job tomorrow (true--I just retired from the military
after 20 years of service). Let's say there's a person who sends out
a certain report and it goes to 100+ people. Normally, I will get
this at my work address. Now, a few weeks from now, I need him to
send it to my home address, just that once. Now, he has never sent me
anything and this comes in. Bang. So there is definitely risk. I
would assign it a relatively low score, probably no more than 1/3 of
your spam threshold. Funny thing is, when I ran the script against my
spam folder, it had exactly ONE hit--just this email in question. I
have never seen a spam like that before.
I just realized I forgot to add the data for CC headers:
I had a total of 5 hits on the MATCH20 out of 4587 good emails for
0.109% and that's it--no other hits. The above data (2.877%) was for
the To: header only.
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