Re: [Razor-users] re: submission counting

[Vipul V. P. <ma...@vi...>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:51:46PM -0600, Shane Williams wrote:
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> On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
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> > The bigger drawback of client side thresholds is
> > that people who set their threshold to a high number, say 5, will only
> > benefit from the reports of other people who set their threshold to 5 or
> > 5+ (because people with lower thresholds will filter out the spam and not
> > report it.)
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> I don't think this logic is necessarily correct.  I, for one, report
> spam to razor regardless of its current razor status, based on quick
> inspection.

I am not sure if many people do that; I, for example, don't. Troll boxes
are the only sources that can (and should) submit irrespective of the
Razor status.

> Further, I don't think the count has to be a simple threshold. I'm using
> spamassasin in conjunction with razor, so spamassassin (not razor)
> determines the threshold above which an email is spam. In such a case, I
> could have SA score multiple razor hits higher than single razor hits.

Submission count isn't a correct measure of spamness. But it's probably
a good measure of "probability of spamness". I am going to give this
more thought.

best,
vipul.

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