On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Adam Katz wrote: > Why do default scores not increase with severity? For example, > SpamAssassin 3.1.7 has inconsistent progression of default scores in > html obfuscation, dates set in the future, and spf marking:
The default scores are generated by analyzing their performance against hand-categorized corpa of actual emails. If a rule hits spam often and ham rarely, it will be given a higher score than one that hits spam often and ham occasionally. Rule performance against real-world traffic can be counterintuitive, and the rules' relation to each other isn't necessarily a part of the analysis. I'm sure somebody else will chime in with a relevant wiki URL... -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that the stupid desire to remain ignorant. -- Jim Bacon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomorrow: the campaign ads stop
