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From: Justin Shore <listuser@neo.pittstate.edu>
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Highest-scoring false positive
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Like an alias for each list that points to the nonspamtrap address.

J


At 10:50 AM -0700 8/22/02, Craig R.Hughes wrote:
>Are you filtering the nonspamtrap for spam when those newsletters 
>sold your address to someone you didn't sign up with?  You should 
>probably manually verify that all the mail in the trap is in fact 
>nonspam!
>
>C
>
>On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 07:59  AM, Justin Mason wrote:
>
>>
>>Justin Shore said:
>>
>>>I just ran across a false positive that scored 8.6.  The message was
>>>a solicited ad from Apple.com on educator deals.  I can send a copy
>>>if anyone wants it.
>>
>>Yes, please do send it on, and I'll add it to the non-spam corpus.
>>
>>To date, the scores evolved by SpamAssassin are very biased towards
>>non-HTML, non-newsletter-ish mail.  This release should be different, as
>>I've been spending the last month signing up a "nonspamtrap" to every
>>legit newsletter I can find ;)
>>
>>This should mean that tests which match common-enough newsletter practices
>>will no longer get such high scores once we re-run the GA.

-- 

--
Justin Shore, ES-SS ES-SSR                Pittsburg State University
Network & Systems Manager                 http://www.pittstate.edu/ois/


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