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From: "Michael Moncur" <mgm@starlingtech.com>
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Subject: RE: [SAtalk] O.T. Habeus -- Why?
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> I think I've worked on SA enough to understand that I can localize a
> score.  I'm just not comfortable with using SpamAssassin as a vehicle
> for drumming up your business at the expense of our user base.

This is exactly what I think. SpamAssassin has always been conservative
about adding unproven RBLs and such, and this should be the same.

> I think it would make more sense to start Habeas with a less aggressive
> score (one which will not give spammers a quick path into everyone's
> inbox) and after we've seen evidence that the system works, then we can
> increase the magnitude of the score.

I say start it with a zero score and put it in 70_cvs_rules_under_test like
any other unproven rule. Then score it based on actual results, not
promises. My corpus does not yet contain a single non-spam (or spam) message
with a Habeas mark. Based on that, it doesn't impress me and it wouldn't
impress the GA either. Rules with exactly the same statistics are being
dropped from SA right now, and I don't see why this should be any different.

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Michael Moncur  mgm at starlingtech.com  http://www.starlingtech.com/
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." --H. H. Williams



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