How does Monash spam scoring work?
Monash University a software package called SpamAssassin to scan emails for Spam content. SpamAssassin operates on the principle that Spam emails usually contain certain patterns of body text, body formatting, email header information and internet links. An email containing the phrase “Free Investment” for example has high probability of being Spam; therefore an extra 1.7 points is added to the overall “Spam Score” for the email if this phrase is found in the email.. SpamAssassin adds up the scores for every Spam pattern/phrase that it matches and this score is reflected as the X-Spam-Level. The higher the score, the greater the probability that the email is Spam. A score of 5 or above is generally considered to be the ‘threshold’ at which an email is Spam.
