owariysy
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2 years ago POST SCRIPTUM: Even once you will have made those "Positive score -Negative score -Neutral score tags" visible" on our PCs and browsers, I still will need to know what you (or you guys) mean by "positive" and "negative": does positive stand for "yes it probably is spam" or "No, it probably is not spam" ,
Because, you know, if one is told "No, it probably is not spam" one usually thinks "oh, what a positive (= nice") thing!" and therefore it is quite confusing, so would you be so kind as to clarify that to me (and, possibly, other users) in advance.
Thank you,
Owariysy, from Florence, Italy
friedPotat0
Dear Mr Christian Zaenker, creator of SPAM SCORE vers. 1.3,
Hello, would you please give me more information about your add-on called SPAM SCORE vers. 1.3, which I have installed on my Thunderbird 91.11.0 (32-bit) (= for win 10),
please, first and foremost, by being so kind as to answer the following 4 questions:
1) on what methods is it based? = I mean, how does it calculate the score?
2) does the score 1.6 mean that it is MORE likely to be a spam than score 0.00, as I can’t help understanding at first glance, //OR, instead, does it mean that it is LESS likely to be a spam than score 0.00?
3) does the score -1.6 mean that it is LESS likely to be a spam than score 0.00, as I can’t help understanding at first glance, //OR, instead, does it mean that it is MORE likely to be a spam than score 0.00?
4) what is the threshold score for an email to be considered a spam? e.g is an e-mail to be considered spam past if Spam Score’s spam score is higher than 2.00 (or less than 2.00, depending to the answer to points 2. and 3. above)?
Unfortunately, this part of the “Read it” that I found at https://github.com/friedPotat0/Spam-Scores#readme , which I am quoting below, does NOT answer my core doubt (my core doubt being “whether a positive: number means the e-mail message is more likely or less likely to be spam (/including phishing, scams, attachments containing viruses, and the like, and, conversely, whether a negative: number means […]”
“The total score of each mail with an existing spam header will be displayed along with a red, yellow or green icon depending on the score. The colours are by default calculated as follows:
[End of quotation]
Would you like to know why it doesn't solve my doubt?
Because a) although I can “guess” that the GREEN colour means “OK”, and therefore “not-spam”,
and that that the RED colour means “OK”, and therefore “not-spam”,
yet, I cannot rely on guessing: I need to read it spelled out, typed in black and white by you, to be assured that I am getting it right.
b) because, unless I get point a) above solved , (= i.e. if you don’t solve my point a) above),
and, moreover, if you don’t give me any advice/guidance/ tip about the threshold past which one usually be confident that one has spotted a real spam (i.e. not a “false positive”)⟶
I cannot figure out the meaning of the sentence “Neutral Score YELLOW= between -2 and 2 (both inclusive) “ which is therefore not helpful to me, but just adds to my frustration.
……………………………………………………………... Thank you very much,
I will be looking forward to your answers in your kind reply.
Yours sincerely,
Owariysy
P.S. wait a minute: when I copied and pasted this whole letter of mine that I had written on a thundebird page, the part of your Read me " GREEN = Score greater than 2 YELLOW= between -2 and 2 (both inclusive)
Score RED = Score less than -2 " suddenly appeared with the tags negative Score, Neutral Score, Positive score, as follows:
So, it seems that we users cannot readthe aforesaid tags because thery are hidden, encrypted, so to speak, in the HTML code: is that so?
= THIS "glitch" IS SHOWN IN THE ATTACHED= UPLOADED FILE named "See for yourself here that those 'negative-positive-neutral' tags...