On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 22:17, RobertH <robe...@abbacomm.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> A general grasp of how it performs across a diverse range of >> email can be gotten from the STATISTICS-set*.txt files >> included in the tarball. >> Look in the rules directory. >> >> The file contains the mass-check results that were used in >> score generation. Generally the best numbers to look at are >> %spam, mostly to see how often a rule hits, and S/O, to see >> how accurate it is. S/O is the ratio of spam to overall hits, >> where a rule with a S/O of 1.0 hits only spam, and never any >> nonsapm, while a S/O of 0 never hits any spam, only nonspam. >> >> >> > > how often is that file on mass-check updated? > > daily?
that file is only updated at release time. However you can also see the results at http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/ . Note that nightly mass-checks don't check the network rules; those are checked weekly. --j.
