Re: Positive v. negative reputation scoring

At Thu Feb 27 21:11:58 2003, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:59:33PM -0800, Nick Arnett said:
> >=20
> > benefit.  But a well-established source -- such as EFF, obviously -- will
> > have had time to build up a positive reputation that ideally would
> > counter-act any abuse of the Razor system.
> 
> I wonder what percentage of Razor users use it via SpamAssassin.  If
> it's most, EFF could become a bonded sender, assuming they were willing
> to clean up their act enough to join.

Well, it would help stop the idiots who auto-report to Razor based on
the SpamAssassin score.

At least with SA 2.50 the RAZOR2_CHECK gets a maximum of 2.029, not
the 3.9ish it got in earlier versions.  I do worry that systems
auto-reporting to Razor on the basis of the SA score get caught in a
feedback loop where the fact that a mail is in Razor automatically
makes it much more likely that it will be re-reported by
auto-reporting spamtraps.

Martin
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