[Tfug] Anti-Spam/Viral Gateway Presentation Online

[Sam Hart]

* On 03-12-19, Jacob Greig wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Sam Hart wrote:
> 
> > You can also see the graph I did (of SA score versus number of hits) here:
> > http://raman.physics.arizona.edu/temp/stats3.png
> 
> i missed the presentation, but what was this graph?

It was tabulated from approx 21,000 items of spam caught by the system for 
Geekcomix.com.

Basically, the X coord is the SpamAssassin score assigned to each message, 
and the Y coord is the total number of messages with that score (rather, 
inside a specific score range and averaged, so the numbers dont quite 
add up- if I didnt do this, then the graph is more of a static-looking 
scatter plot as the SA scores range so much between messages. Besides, 
we're only interested in approximate ranges here).

The whole point of the graph was to show that there's peaks near 
SA-Score=5 and SA-Score=8. Also that after SA-Score=10, the hits taper 
down (so most of the spam scores between SA-Score=3 and SA-Score=15 or 
so).

I know, I know... I really should put a legend on it.

-- 
Sam Hart
University/Work addr. <hart at physics.arizona.edu>
Personal addr. <criswell at geekcomix.com>
Alternative <criswell at tux4kids.net>
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