Mailing List Archive: statistical false postive rate at various spam scores

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:11:15AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> Assuming you are using completelly stock SA with network tests, and
> bayesian filters turned on.
> What is your level of false positive for the following rejection rates?
> How could I determine this?

Read the STATISTICS* files in the rules directory of the tarball.

> Would the GA masscheck runs tell me this?
> 5,
> 10,
> 13,
> 20,

The GA output would. :) (as seen in the files mentioned above)

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