Re: Positive v. negative reputation scoring

I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of autoreporting from Spam Assassin 
if you make it so that the score has to be say 20 points or more. But 
certianly not at 5 points. At 20 points it might work very well with razor.

Martin Radford wrote:

> 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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