AWL: dont understand it

2007-12-12 Thread peter pilsl
sorry for posting again a question regarding the same topic, but I think I found out more in the meantime and can ask a better question. I've a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following entries in my autowhitelist: 20.0(40.0/2) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ip=222.253 24.2

Re: AWL: dont understand it

2007-12-12 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, peter pilsl wrote: How is this AWL-scoring calculated? It seems almost broken to me. The name is very misleading. If you think of it as a historical score averaging system instead, with the goal of allowing a typically-hammy sender to occasionally send a spammy message, and

Re: AWL: dont understand it

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Proulx
John D. Hardin wrote: peter pilsl wrote: I need to turn off AWL by now. Most people do... :) The problem is that it is based upon the from address. That is an unreliable piece of data. Spammers forge from addresses all of the time. Even valid senders will sometimes fabricate from

Re: AWL: dont understand it

2007-12-12 Thread Mark Martinec
On Thursday 13 December 2007 02:07:00 Bob Proulx wrote: The problem is that it is based upon the from address. That is an unreliable piece of data. Spammers forge from addresses all of the time. Even valid senders will sometimes fabricate from addresses. If the input to the equation can't

Re: AWL: dont understand it

2007-12-12 Thread Matt Kettler
peter pilsl wrote: sorry for posting again a question regarding the same topic, but I think I found out more in the meantime and can ask a better question. I've a user [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following entries in my autowhitelist: 20.0(40.0/2) -- [EMAIL