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Re: DNSWL will be disabled by default as of tomorrow
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar_at_nospam>Date: Wed Dec 14 2011 - 10:58:42 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
On 12.12.11 12:58, darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
>Tomorrow's sa-update will include disabling of the DNSWL rules. If you
>wish to locally enable them with the same scores which had previously been
>default, use this:
>
>score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE -0.0001
>score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW -0.7
>score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED -2.3
>score RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI -5
>
>It was disabled because it is returning a value triggering RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI
>for all queries from DNS servers deemed abusive, causing false negatives in
>SpamAssassin. It was the only network test, enabled in SpamAssassin
>by default, intentionally returning known incorrect values under any
>circumstances.
well, same thing hapened with some blacklists in the past, which
resulted to high number of FP's.
While FNs mean (much/all) mail not to be detected, FP's are uch worse.
I wonder why SA disables DNWSL rules, with this logic blacklists, not
whitelists, should be disabled...
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