Hi all, Simon, I had some FPs because of this rule and because my threshold is lower than 5.
I just had a score override to lower it but this rule still hist a lot of spam (419 scams essentially). You may want to fine tune the score according to your specific FPs. Regards, Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-10-25 10:57 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 10/25/2012 10:47 AM, Simon Loewenthal wrote: >> Evening all, >> >> A great majority of our ham starts with Dear Sir/ Dear Madam / Dear Bob. >> >> Therefore I've always wondered why this this is scored so highly: >> >> * 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)' >> >> >> Does anyone know the rational behind this, or is our user base simply >> communicating on a higher level? :) I imagine the rational is >> sound, but I do not know what it is. > > The rationale is simple. The masscheck finds that this rule hits more > spam than ham, so it gets a higher score. >
