Hello, Would this group agree that requiring 5 hits in order to classify an email as spam is too conservative a number?
I suspect ISPs have their filter settings at 3 or less. Any insight would be appreciated. Kind Regards, Josie Josie Walls Senior Email Deliverability Manager WhatCounts, Inc. Business Email, RSS, Mobile, and Blog Marketing 206-709-8250 X143 (office) 917-361-4155 (cell) 206-709-9210 (fax) 800-440-7005 (support) -----Original Message----- From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:47 AM To: Spamassassin Mailing List Subject: Re: Why is this spam passing my SA (counterfeit goods) At 10:18 11-04-2008, Igor Chudov wrote: >Here are both the spam message (at bottom of the web page) as well as >output of SA. > >The message is obviously junk about the usual counterfeit mechandise >tat is being peddled everywhere. > > http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam003.txt check: is spam? score=4.275 required=2.5 check: tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_BL ACK The message has a score of 4.275 which is about the required score (2.5). It was detected as spam. Regards, -sm