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From: dimitry at al.org.ua (Dmitry Alyabyev)
Subject: Fwd: this address is no longer available

Indeed you should customize score based on your own mails.
I've corrected scores of about 30 rules and now I'm happy with required_hits=5  
and get only 1..2 false positives and 5..10 not-recognized spam messages from 
about 300 messages a day.

-- 
Dimitry

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 03:14, David Hane wrote:
> I had the same problem with the 5 setting early on too. My problem is that
> I receive many email from foreign users. The language settings were killing
> me due to the high rating (4 I think). Once I turned that test off my 5
> setting has been 100% correct.
>
> I would check the false positive messages then adjust the tests that are
> giving you problems. Either disable them or lower their score.
>
> Dave Hane
>
> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 16:09, Nexus wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@...allas.edu>
> > To: "Vision Through Sound" <echolation@...hmail.com>;
> > <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 11:01 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Fwd: this address is no longer available
> >
> > > Setting SpamAssassin to trigger at 5.0 is pretty silly IMO.  You'll get
> > > a ton of false positives.
> >
> > Having used it for about a month, I have 438 spams correctly identified
> > with 2 false positives - one being the start of this thread due to the
> > example spam messsage, the other being someone asking my advice on a scam
> > email.   I can live with those figures (and it's set to 5 as well).
> > YMMV of course.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
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