Bug 2867 - Razor should have more effect
Summary: Razor should have more effect
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: 2.60
Hardware: Other other
: P5 enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.70
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2003-12-26 05:15 UTC by Dru
Modified: 2003-12-26 13:42 UTC (History)
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Description Dru 2003-12-26 05:15:51 UTC 
I know this is handled by the learning but wouldn't a very high percentage of
emails marked by razor be classified as spam?  Then shouldn't they get a higher
score?
Comment 1 Theo Van Dinter 2003-12-26 22:42:03 UTC 
Well, yes and no.  Some percentage of spam is marked by Razor.  I used to find 
it was pretty good on my incoming mail (~75%), it's now down to under 40%, but 
that's another discussion.

As for the scores, this is covered in the FAQ, but here's the short-short 
version.  The GA (which generates the scores) tends to find that lots of spam 
hit a lot of rules at the same time.  These messages are likely to hit the 
RAZOR2_CHECK rule, for instance.  Therefore, the GA can lower the individual 
rule scores to help lower the likelihood of falsely identifying a ham as spam, 
while leaving the known spam to be marked as spam.

Closing as wfm.