Re: SpamAssassin weightings - am I missing something?

[Jonathan Matthews <jaycee.removeifnotspam@jaycee.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:39:49AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:31:02AM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> > SPAM: EXCUSE_16          (-0.3 points) BODY: I wonder how many emails they sent in error...
> > SPAM: EXCUSE_14          (-0.2 points) BODY: Tells you how to stop further spam
> > 
> > It seems strange to me that these two reasons should /decrease/ the 
> > probability of the email being spam.
> 
> They do.  Hence minus points instead of adding them.

I think we're talking at cross purposes - I meant "I find it strange 
that the excuses cited should be taken as reasons for the mail to be 
less likely to be spam", not any other reading.

Were you perhaps reading it differently?

-- jc