Re: Positive v. negative reputation scoring

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:45:30PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> 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.

I've seen this before - at 20 points you'd be hard pressed to find
anyone who wouldn't consider it spam. The statistics SA work out for a
score of 20 puts the likelihood of a false positive very, very low.

So, if a mail message is considered spam almost certainly, what is the
point of reporting it? Whom does that benefit? Not SA users as SA
clearly already knows.

In other words, how many people are using razor with a) nothing else b)
such an exceedingly crappy filter that it can't otherwise detect a
SA-valued 20point-er?

Paul

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