It must be partially because I run a bunch of custom rules to single out stock
spam, MLM spam, and frequent spammers, but I seem to get higher scores than
many people have posted. I get one or two scores over 30 per day.

In my archive of the last month of spam (1058 messages total from 3/11/2002 to
4/4/2002) I have the following range of scores:

45.8 (one message, all-time high for legitimate spam)
41-44 (8 messages)
36-40 (21 messages)
30-35 (63 messages)
25-29 (117 messages)
20-24 (158 messages)
15-19 (253 messages)
10-14 (292 messages)
6-9 (85 messages)
0-6, false negative (60 messages)

Nearly half of the false negatives in this set are from em5000.net, who I added
a rule for halfway through the month. (My threshold is set at 6.0.)

This means SA had a hit rate of 94% for this batch of messages - not bad! I
don't keep track of false positives, but there have been probably 5-6 during
the last month.

P.S. The message that scored 45.8 was a genuine "My wife Jody" message and
scored on Razor and a bunch of network tests too - none of my custom rules
affected that one.

--
michael moncur   mgm at starlingtech.com   http://www.starlingtech.com/
"Nobody can be exactly like me.  Even I have trouble doing it."
                -- Tallulah Bankhead


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