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Re: spamtestbis

2005-02-04 06:02:37

FYI the draft for the new version of the spamtest extension is now
available. The only change between this and the current RFC is the addition
of a :percent argument to the spamtest test to allow for a numeric range of
0 - 100. The value -1 is used to indicate a message that was not
categorised in anyway.

I'm surprised we need a percentage spam score... I would have thought 10 levels 
was enough.  Indeed in your example you use level 30(%) = 3.
 
First, I don't think the -1 is a good idea because of how it interacts with
numeric comparators. I'd much rather retain 0 as the value indicating no test
was done. 

I agree.  I think many existing scripts will test for 0 as a way of finding out 
if the message was scanned, so why risk breaking them?  Personally I don't mind 
if "message is clear of spam" = 1%.  It's not really an exact science anyway...

Nigel


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