Re: Score for KAM_LIST3_1

[email protected] Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:48:32 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 7/30/25 11:40 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "Alan via users" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> I got a FP on this rule, which isn't really that bad, save for the
>> default score of 5.75. That's enough to get a spam classification on
>> it's own.
>>
>> I've adjusted the score locally but the default seems a tad heavy. I'm
>> giving it a 3.25.
> 
> Many others have the same sorts of feelings.  I've said before that no
> rule should have a score approaching 5 unless it is pretty much
> inconceivable that it would hit on ham.  I scored down a bunch, and
> decided that the risk to ham was too great, and deconfigured the KAM
> ruleset.
> 
> It was great at bringing the score of a lot of spam above my reject
> threshold, and keeping a bunch of the rest out of my inbox.  A lot of
> tough calls and you need to decide what you want to do.
if KAM ruleset has too high scores for your setup, you can use sa-update(1) "--score-limit" option to adjust scores.
  Giovanni

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