http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5160
Summary: Default scores anglo-centric, false positives in Europe
Product: Spamassassin
Version: 3.0.3
Platform: Other
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: minor
Priority: P5
Component: Rules
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A number of the default scores are not suitable in a European environment, and
risk creating false positives. I suggest that the default scores should be
tweaked as described below, or at least a comment added to the default
user_prefs
template.
score LONGWORDS 0
I have found that LONGWORDS tends to trigger on messages written in Polish.
score SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS 0.5
I have found that SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS tends to trigger a lot on e-mails sent
in French by people using old Unix mailers -- typically older people who have
been brought up on Unix, quite often people in management positions in Academia.
While marking messages from one's boss as spam may be considered as a feature,
I suggest a lower score.
Additionally (perhaps off-topic for this report), I have found that
MISSING_SUBJECT and FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD tend to generate false positives,
perhaps due to the old version of SA that I'm using.
Thanks for your help,
Juliusz Chroboczek
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