Re: Positive v. negative reputation scoring

I suppose the idea is that other people might not be using SA or have SA 
configured differently and that reporting it to Razor is somehow useful.

Paul Makepeace wrote:

> [recipient list trimmed]
>
> 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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