 kenneth nerhood said i too am seeing very weird things with NUMBER NUMBER and awl i installed a fresh system and then ran a bunch of test spam through it all from the same user all messages should have scored over NUMBER the awl kept adjusting them down so that after about NUMBER message i had a negative score i m using spamc d that s exactly what is intended the idea is that legit senders who habitually score just NUMBER will eventually get out of awl hell after NUMBER NUMBER messages note that running a single spam through spamassassin a t will eventually whitelist the spammer but that s why the man page tells you not to do it j this URL email is sponsored by thinkgeek welcome to geek heaven URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 