On 09/24, David Bennett wrote: > It occurred to me that a sender that is paying their way into my inbox > is almost certainly sending me junk mail. A little research in my > inbox and it turns out to be right on the money. All stuff that I > didn't want.
Disclaimer: I'm a dnswl.org admin, although haven't been active lately. Also, dnswl.org (provider of the data used by RCVD_IN_DNSWL_* rules) doesn't charge anybody for being listed. They only charge very high volume users of the data for use of the data, like Spamhaus and some other major blacklist providers. Most of what I want to say is that spamassassin generally assigns scores very carefully calculated to give the most accurate results. The mass-check process takes lots of real-world spams and non-spams, and using that calculates ideal scores for every rule. Although the DNSWL rules are among those which have hard-coded (not "mutable") scores. I believe this is because it's a problem to get the mass-check contributors to set their trusted_networks reliably enough to avoid really messing up the results. It might help if the submitted mass-check data included a one way salted hash of the last untrusted IP, with a different salt per user, so we could verify they're not showing a bunch of spam all from the same IP address, which is likely to mean they have a trusted_networks configured poorly (it would mean that reported address is probably a trusted relay). As you can imagine, the mass-check process can always use more contributors to increase the accuracy of spamassassin. You are only uploading a list of the tests each email hit, not the emails themselves, so it's not a privacy concern. To contribute: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck The dev@ mailing list occasionally requires some harassing to get new accounts created, which also drives me nuts. Also, as you can imagine, having your trusted_networks not configured properly will also screw up the results of many of the network tests. -- "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) http://www.ChaosReigns.com
