Re: [dspam-users] maximum X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9997 ?

Ok.
There isn't any simple answer to my question then.
Thank you very much for an excellent piece of software!

/Jonas

Thursday 18 August 2005 21:53 Jonathan Zdziarski wrote:
> confidence is based on robinson's geometric mean test, which
> basically plots the confidence on a plane based on the different
> values of all tokens included. so if you have 25% spammy tokens and
> 75% hammy tokens, your confidence will sit around 75% (innocent).
>
> On Aug 18, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> > Thursday 18 August 2005 21:14 Jonathan Zdziarski wrote:
> >> That makes sense, since no actual tokens take on a 1.0 value.
> >
> > So you're actually saying it *could* get above that, but it takes a
> > lot to get
> > there?
> >
> > And there isn't any guarantee that new real mail won't get high
> > ratings like
> > 0.9996 ?
> >
> > If a real mail had the very message content of a spam message,
> > there would
> > still be some tokens that differ from the usual spam we've learned:
> > the
> > headers that make the from address and the recieved headers telling
> > about the
> > path of the mail.
> > If those hasn't been seen by DSPAM before, could the message still
> > get full
> > rating (X-DSPAM-Confidence >= 0.9997) ?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Jonas Widarsson
> >
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> > 70 539 64 79
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>
> !DSPAM:4304e74b31016757319924!

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