Re: SpamAssassin scores and 12-letter domains

[Kevin A. McGrail]

It's a good point and I sent a recommendation to ASF infrastructure. On 8/7/2012 9:48 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On 06/08/2012 19:00, Ben Johnson wrote: All of that said, it sounds like this issue will be discussed among the developers, so maybe something will be done and not all 12-letter-domain owners will be blacklisted throughout the Internet. Best regards, -Ben At risk of being slight unnervingly pedantic... Spamassassin does not blacklist, spamassassin does not block. All spamassassin does (on its own) is classify. Certain implementations, in this case, the ASF's, will block emails that have been classified to a certain confidence level. The default scores are not manually set, but (in my understanding) are evaluated against databases of spam and non-spam emails and statistically evaluated to optimum scores. There is long considered an issue of the amount of non-spam emails contained within this evaluation (getting 'typical' private emails for this purpose can pose certain difficulties). The dev's can discuss the bigger issues, but for your immediate problem I would approach and continue to approach ASF on the actions of their spam block according to spamassassin's classification, blocking at 5 points is un-necessarily harsh, and many implementations have the ability to block at (say) 12 points, tag at say 5 points (which could be implemented to leave messages in a moderation queue) and release everything else. -- Kevin A. McGrail President Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation 3927 Old Lee Highway, Suite 102-C Fairfax, VA 22030-2422 http://www.pccc.com/ 703-359-9700 x50 / 800-823-8402 (Toll-Free) 703-359-8451 (fax) kmcgr...@pccc.com