Increasing BAYES_99 score can be very dangerous [LWN.net]

Increasing BAYES_99 score can be very dangerous

Posted Mar 3, 2006 10:40 UTC (Fri) by Stephen_Beynon (✭ supporter ✭, #4090)
In reply to: Increasing BAYES_99 score can be very dangerous by fyodor
Parent article: A grumpy editor's bayesian followup

I disagree that increased BAYES_99 score is dangerous. I set the BAYES_99
rule to 5 points. I have set procmail to place messages between 5 and 10
points into a junk folder which I check weekly.
I have never seen BAYES_99 produce a false positive, and I have only seen
2 false positives from spamassassin in the last year. Both of these were
at the spam like end of mail I consider legitimate. One of these messages
was hit by the BAYES_90 rule and one was BAYES_80 (both of which are at
default weighting)

Stephen

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