I flag spam at 7.0 and drop it altogether at 20.0. I do lots of whitelisting
and have never had a false positive over 20.0.
Actually I save the 20-and-over spams to a file and occasionally
double-check it.
This allows me to keep over 75% of the spam out of my mailbox entirely - I
have 3-4 messages a day in my Spam folder instead of 20-30.
My system doesn't allow me to bounce messages with SA, but doing so doesn't
really get anybody removed from spam lists anyway... I have addresses that
have been bouncing for years that still get spam.
--
michael moncur   mgm at starlingtech.com   http://www.starlingtech.com/
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."             -- Mark Twain
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spamassassin-devel-admin@example.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:spamassassin-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Marc
> Perkel
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:15 AM
> To: spamassassin-devel@example.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [SAdev] Who uses Spam Assassin this way?
>
>
> I know most people use SA to just tag spam - but I use it to also delete
> and bounce spam.
>
> At 5 point I flag the message as spam and pass it on. At 18 points I
> bounce the spam as if the user doesn't exist - in the hopes of being
> removed from spam lists. I have modified scores on rules with large
> numbers of FP to .1 and at 18 points I get no FP at all now.
>
> Therefore - one of my goals in improving the rules is to try to get real
> spam up to 18 points. So if I have more good rules then real spam will
> hit more rules and raise the point value.
>
> Anyhow - I was wondering how many of you are doing what I'm doing?
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