RE: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Write a custom rule to reduce it when it's from AOL. As for the recommendation that you use numbers in your name so it's unique... That's stupid. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sounds like a spammer to mean! Subject of RE: Equipment... No spam sounding there. The combinati

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Hm, ADDR_NUMS_AT_BIGSITE and FROM_WEBMAIL_END_NUMS6 seem to be redundant. But then, nothing intelligent comes from AOL is a good rule here. I had to whitelist only one address at AOL over the last several years. So I never bothered about it before. (I told the holder of that address that his AOL ad

RE: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

>-Original Message- >From: Jim Sabatke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:35 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? > > >Martin Hepworth wrote: >> Jim >

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Martin Hepworth wrote: Jim Pierre's scores are similar to mine - what extra rules do you run, do you use surbl.org and any RBL's/pyzor/razor/bayes stuff? I find you need to add in alot of the SARE rules, surbl, bayes, razor/pyzor to get the setup working well. I use a lot of SARE rules. I als

RE: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

>-Original Message- >From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:51 AM >To: Pierre Thomson >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? > > >Hello Pierre

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Jim Pierre's scores are similar to mine - what extra rules do you run, do you use surbl.org and any RBL's/pyzor/razor/bayes stuff? I find you need to add in alot of the SARE rules, surbl, bayes, razor/pyzor to get the setup working well. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Hello Pierre, Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 5:38:40 AM, you wrote: PT> I have had a couple of FP's recently from valid AOL users. AOL PT> recommends appending digits to your screen name to make it unique, PT> and many users do that. The result (sender using AOL 9.0 client, SA PT> 2.63) is a pen

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Pierre Thomson wrote: Martin, The real egregious spams score up in the 20's and 30's, and the vast majority score over 12. What we review represents only a tiny fraction of the received spam, and some of the "sham" which is hardest to categorize. Pierre I keep reading these numbers and they don't

RE: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

tin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:10 AM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? Pierre glad to see you've got time to check this email - I leave this to the users :-)

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

rom: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:43 AM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? Pierre depends on how you handle a score of 6.651 in MailScanner I deliver (wit

RE: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

--- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:43 AM To: Pierre Thomson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers? Pierre depends on how you handle a score of 6.651 in MailScanner I deliver (wi

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

>> I have had a couple of FP's recently from valid AOL users. AOL >> recommends appending digits to your screen name to make it unique, >> and >> many users do that. The result (sender using AOL 9.0 client, SA >> 2.63) >> is a penalty of 6.39 points right off the bat. Isn't that a bit >> extreme

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

> I have had a couple of FP's recently from valid AOL users. AOL > recommends appending digits to your screen name to make it unique, and > many users do that. The result (sender using AOL 9.0 client, SA 2.63) > is a penalty of 6.39 points right off the bat. Isn't that a bit > extreme? I know a

Re: Unreasonable penalty for AOL addresses ending in numbers?

Pierre depends on how you handle a score of 6.651 in MailScanner I deliver (with Tagged subject) scores from 5-10, and block anything with score > 10, so this kind of thing still ends up in the recipients email. You could lower the score of the rules in spam.assassin.prefs.conf, or whitelis