Re: Spamassassin's Razor scores

Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:53:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.razor.user
Organization Intra2net AG
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Jim,

On Tuesday, 5. February 2008 18:15:24 you wrote:
> I used to have higher SA scores for 95-100% spam confidence.
>
> However, I found that I could not increase the score very much.
> Occasionally, I would get a false positive for a blank email, no text with
> a few HTML tags and just attachments.  The Razor database regularly
> contains data that indicates that a blank email is 100% known spam.  There
> was no way to prevent the false positive because the whitelist feature for
> hash values was removed.  I also tried combining scores for messages with a
> small amount of text and positive razor hits, but that allows too much
> spam.

Hmm, that would be a little show stopper.

What did the other tests of SpamAssassin report for such mails?
I can imagine they report it as spam, too.

Thomas

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