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paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

Is it possible to use wildcards in black words??
I mean something like "ev*thing" ?? i.e. where * is the jolly character...

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

JimKyle · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

The "strong" modifier forces the classification if just one rule is satisfied. Without it, several rules must be met before the classification becomes official.

The "not" modifier reverses the meaning of the rule. That is, if you wanted to receive only messages that satisfied the rule, you would check both strong and not when adding or editing the rule. With both checked, I believe that no messages would survive except those that satisfied the rule.

Both modifiers are controlled by check boxes near the top of the dialog when you are creating or editing the rule. To add a modifier to an existing rule, highlight the rule in the list, click the Edit button, then check or clear either or both of the check boxes as desired. Then save the modified rule and you should find it working...

paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

still not filtering....

I've forgotten to say I use full version of ASS 1.65 together with full version of Agava Antispamservant 2.16 and I've set TheBat! to delete messages when minimum spam score is above 98%.
A part from this, the point is ASS is not classifying spam messages defined with black rules as I expected....
Developers of ASS, this message is also for you...
Any suggestions??

JimKyle · Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:15 pm Post subject:

Try making three separate rules rather than having all three tests in a single rule. I note that it did classify it at more than 91% spam, which should have automatically put the message into the Junk folder. You might want to look at your TB! options dealing with anti-spam filtering, to see where your threshold point is set.

I seldom see any message explicitly tagged as spam, but have an overall rate of more than 98% accuracy in tossing the unwanted messages into the Junk folder anyway since most of them score well above 90% spam...

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

vetaltm · Author Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 748

BTW, the rules you created are not good. The expression ".*" matches any text of any length, including spaces and other invisible symbols. Some good subject may start with "ph" and end with "macy" with many other words between. I can't give an example, but it is obvious that the pattern is bad. Also, the patterns are case insensitive (locale dependent transformation is applied to both text and pattern before comparing). If you want to filter variants of "pharmacy" word, then the following pattern is more suitable:
ph[\w]{2}macy

Any 2 alpha-numeric symbols in the middle of the word will be eaten with that pattern.

paolo73an · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

JimKyle · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject:

If you want to keep using two plug-ins, set the option to use Maximum rather than Minimum score. The way your screen shot shows things, if either one of the plug-ins failed to score the message above 75, it would not go to the junk folder even though the Sniper scored it at 91%. Setting it to use Maximum rather than minimum, then if either one did score above 75, the message would go to junk. I suspect that this is the whole basis of your problem!!!

Edit: Something is wrong in the forum software; only once in all the times I've viewed this thread did I see your shot of the options screen from TB!; at the moment it's showing me the details of the filtered message, where the options shot is supposed to be!