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Re: CrossAssassin results



On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:23:29PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> >> >> We are getting about 700 nonspam messages a day to the BTS, and about 30
> >> >> spams a day are making it past spamassassin.
> >> >
> >> >This is reverse from how it's supposed to be used -- the mail should first
> >> >go through CA and only then through SA. Why did you do it the other way
> >> >around?
> >> 
> >> All the messages are going through both crossassassin and
> >> spamassassin.  I'm using the spamassassin score to whitelist messages,
> >> since there are a significant number of non-spam messages that are
> >> sent to four or more bugs.
> >
> >How many?
> 
> $ egrep '^  ok .* ([4-9]|[1-9][0-9]+)$' /org/bugs.debian.org/log/spamscan.log | wc -l
>      70
> 
> 70 since crossassasin was enabled about 44 hours ago.
> 
> The one nonspam that got caught was reinjected after I added a new
> spamassassin rule (making it score < 0) so is included in the 70.  (It
> was sent to request, and I had not examined messages going to
> request.)
> 
> $ egrep '^  spam [0-3]\.' /org/bugs.debian.org/log/spamscan.log | wc -l
>     244
> 
> 244 spams were caught by crossassassin in the same period.

What are the statistics if you use CA properly? :) IOW if you give it the
thousands of messages that now go through SA?

For purposes of testing, just log them, you don't have to actually kill off
those 70-odd valid mails...

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