It's not abysmal. You just don't understand it. Most people get in excess of 99% of spam with SpamAssassin. Isn't it great to know that SpamAssassin is so well geared against false positives that you're TRYING to send a spammy email and can't do it?
http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html Break a few more tests and you'll get over the threshold. Or run some of your REAL spam through it. Of course, you could write your own rule to make PEN*S 5.0 points if you like. But it's been tested thoroughly and it turns out that no, that is not an appropriate score for that test. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box... > > After some dyslexia in running the tests in USAGE (which > passed/failed as they should)... > > I decided to send some really annoying spam to myself. > > Basically email consisted of an all caps subject "INCREASE > YOUR PEN*S SIZE NOW!!!" and several lines in the body with > same text and a url to go to. > BTW, I didn't make the above typo in my email...I spelled the > organ part correctly. > > The best I can seem to do on my own is rate a 3.1...with 5 to reject. > > This seems a skosh weak. I mean...let's get real. The subject > alone s/have made the email rate a 5...imho. > > I will look at configuring hit rate lower, but this s/not be > necessary I think. > > Why is the rating system so abysmal? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
