Thanks to everyone for suggestions about Bayes, but no one addressed my
question. Are there pitfalls to adjusting the scores?
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Pat Traynor
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:46:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Pat Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can I bump up the scores?
A lot of spam is slipping through. I was wondering how dangerous it
would be for me to bump up some of these scores. This is from a typical
spam I've been getting:
X-Spam-Level: ***
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0
tests=BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE,
RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_DSBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no
version=2.60-rc3
Looking at the scores for some of these, I see:
score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0 2.95 0 2.00
score RCVD_IN_DSBL 0 1.501 0 1.106
Perhaps this is an invalid assumption, but I'm assuming that since
they've calculated the score to a one-thousandth of a point, there is
some good reason for that particular score, and maybe I shouldn't be
monkeying with it.
But I'd love to go in and just bump up some of these scores a solid
point or two. Am I asking for trouble by doing this?
On a related subject, are there updated scorecards that some of you
wizards have tweaked that could be downloaded?
Thanks for any help.
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Pat Traynor
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