Re: AWL - BAYES_99/ general questions On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:21 -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One thing I do not understand regarding AWL and BAYES. When a message is 
> reported to me as spam and was not marked as spam, I test is using debug 
> before and after sa-learn. Each time I do this, BAYES_99 does hit, but 
> they will also include AWL.
> 
> 1. Does anyone understand why this happens?

AWL is a score averager. SA has seen that sender before.
  http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist

Run it through SA again, and you will see the AWL score getting closer
to 0, since the score without AWL is constant. The AWL score is
negative, because previous scores have been lower.

  guenther


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