Re: APPEAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Eduardo Pereira Habkost wrote:
> > BTW, all messages on the list have a NO_MX_FOR_FROM hit. This is
> > giving 1.8 extra hit points for everybody. Fixing this or remoing
> > this test could help to avoid false positives.
>
> This is *very* interesting! It means the day we fix it we will start
> receiving from the list all the spam currently having a score between
> 5.0 and 6.8 (except those who actually match the NO_MX_FOR_FROM
> check).
>
> I hope those of you who oppose so strongly to changing default
> threshold from 5.0 will agree to downgrade it a little bit after the
> NO_MX_FOR_FROM thing is fixed.
no, the right thing to do is add lots of rules to spamassassin's
local.cf so that any spam scores higher.
if you reduce the threshold so that nearly every message gets tagged as
spam, you may as well just give up on having a list at all.
instead, spamassassin should be configured to assign a higher score to
spam - and the only way to do that is to give it extra rules with which
to identify spam.
craig
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