What does conservative mean vs aggressive?

NB user question: I currently have the basic score set at the default 5. Not sure what conservative means vs aggressive. '5' is said to be rather aggressive. 8 or 10 is said to be more conservative and more appropriate for an ISP. Does conservative, in this case mean -- as I'm thinking that it

Re: What does conservative mean vs aggressive?

drkwc wrote: conservative means vs aggressive. conservative = setting a higher spam score threshold to ensure that LESS legitimate mail mistakenly blocked, even if that means that more spam makes it into the inbox aggressive = setting a lower spam score threshold with a goal of blocking MORE

Re: What does conservative mean vs aggressive?

Very helpful Rob McEwen. And thank you for the referral to Justin Mason's piece. --kwc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-does-%22conservative%22-mean-vs-%22aggressive%22--tp25463445p25463790.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.