At 7:06 PM -0700 2003/08/12, Justin Mason wrote:
No -- they are commercial. (the bl.spamcop.net test is semi-commercial,
in that donations are requested). Since these figures are used in the
SpamAssassin rescore run, we can't use commercial tests since most users
would not be able to enable them.
For your comparisons, I can understand. However, for the sake of
the kind of data we're looking for, I believe that they should be
included in the tests.
It's pretty tricky to figure that out from this table, unfortunately; one
good guideline is, if a score is higher than the accuracy would suggest,
the GA has found it to provide useful "information" (in the Shannon
sense). If the score has been zeroed, it overlapped too much with other
tests or was massively inaccurate (see RCVD_IN_OSIRU,
RCVD_IN_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC).
Interesting. Good to know.
We do occasionally run overlap tests, but they're quite heavy tests to
run, since you have to run each rule against every other rule as far as I
can see.
Fair enough. Thanks again!
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