spam report quesiton....

[Francis J. Lacoste]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:16, Mitchell Baker wrote:
> Just ran the spamassassin report and would like a little clarification
> if possible...
> 
> In the report I have:
> Messages Scanned by 1w Period
> 
> Total for 1941560 records
> 
> and
> 
> Total Number of Messages Tagged As SPAM by 1w Period
> Total for 1224900 records
> 
> then
> Maximum SPAM Score by 1w Period
> Delay by 1w Period
> back with this: Total for 1941560 records
> 
> and Top 10 People Receiving SPAM
> back to the Total for 1224900 records
> 
> Why the diff in number if records???? Would not be the number of records
> be the same???

This is because the  "Number of Messages Tagged as SPAM..." and
"Top 10 People..." reports uses a filter-spec which selects only
the records (messages) tagged as SPAM. So you have 1.224.900 messages
tagged as SPAM on 1.941.560 messages (ouch!). The other two reports
do not use any filter so the results were computed on all the
available records.

Perhaps this "filtering" should be indicated in the report's description
(which is empty for now).


Kind regards,

Francis J. Lacoste

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