Re: Bayes problem: very large spam/ham ratio

2007-05-22 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:18:13PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:02:16PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > > as well as: > > > 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::AutoLearnThreshold' > > > where they both have the nonspam

Re: Bayes problem: very large spam/ham ratio

2007-05-22 Thread Duncan Findlay
x27; > where they both have the nonspam default documented as 0.1. That looks like a documentation bug. :-) It'd be great if somebody reported that to the bugzilla at http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/ -- Duncan Findlay pgp3CrwerU4Uo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Score Generation for Apache SpamAssassin

2007-04-26 Thread Duncan Findlay
r the future (I'm sure there'll be > more... ;) Probably not to me, but it might be useful to others. (I think I already know what needs to be done.) Also, it might limit creativity in possible solutions. We need a score ranges mechanism, we don't need the specific one we

Score Generation for Apache SpamAssassin

2007-04-23 Thread Duncan Findlay
iscusses many of the issues that differentiate the scoring process from most other machine learning problems. (Then again, it might just be boring.) Enjoy! -- Duncan Findlay pgp1gS88F0B9z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Google Summer of Code 2007 ...

2007-02-16 Thread Duncan Findlay
t; place of weight based scoring. Does this sound like it qualifies? Perhaps pluginize the scoring mechanisms so we can have plugins that implement different ham/spam decision rules? -- Duncan Findlay pgp45Qcn2sEBR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: what does the 'new' --allowupdates option to sa-update do?

2007-02-14 Thread Duncan Findlay
and you want to use these plugins by default without checking them first Anyways, that's my opinion, though I'm not nearly as familiar with the update process as Theo is. -- Duncan Findlay pgpVvNds3MgMZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham

2007-02-12 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00:06PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:10:53PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > I've read most of the e-mails on this topic and I think the underlying > > problem is that this method relies on knowing exactly whi

Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham

2007-02-12 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:10:53PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I've read most of the e-mails on this topic and I think the underlying > problem is that this method relies on knowing exactly which profiles > (i.e. combinations of rules) valid ham can hit. After re-reading your mes

Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham

2007-02-11 Thread Duncan Findlay
'll work in practice. -- Duncan Findlay pgp8GwTi2pg2F.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: development list

2007-01-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
dev list is fine for technical discussion about how SpamAssassin works. Just make sure you don't start asking questions about how to use SpamAssassin, or you probably won't get an answer. :-) -- Duncan Findlay

Re: Rule update over DNS?

2006-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
f us packaging SpamAssassin for distributions should think about this. :-) Will it be okay if all Debian users start running sa-update on the same minute of the hour? -- Duncan Findlay pgpj4XrsaueQ7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spam

2006-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
he first paragraph when running the rules. All HTML tags and line breaks will be removed before matching. -- Duncan Findlay pgpxzFeoMk5zQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Rule update over DNS?

2006-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
. It is not logical for spamd to call spamassassin, though as Daryl pointed out it would not be difficult if you chose to do that. :-) Anyways... maybe I should get back to doing something useful like studying for tomorrow's exam... -- Duncan Findlay pgp2dd6c1W0uG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new rule->sa-update speedup idea (was Re: spam attacks - so and so wrote about a stock )

2006-10-18 Thread Duncan Findlay
his would mean they wouldn't get a good S/O ratio anyways. -- Duncan Findlay pgp56fT3Pm0Sl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Rulesemporium rules

2006-10-10 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:43:58PM -0400, Dan Horne wrote: > >> 10) Making top ten lists. > Hilarious. Can I subscribe to those top ten lists with RDJ? Are they going to be licensed with the Apache license? /me ducks -- Duncan Findlay pgpbI5yKn40MO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassassin 3.1.1 for debian

2006-04-01 Thread Duncan Findlay
.org/pkg-sa/ Patches are also welcome, of course! -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[OT] Re: DO NOT Filter this list!!!

2006-02-15 Thread Duncan Findlay
cause our ice rink caught fire. Not to mention how your team seems to be doing pretty poorly in the Olympics... (Tying Latvia?) ;-) (Sorry, couldn't resist...) -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[OT] SpamAssassin Developer for Hire

2006-02-06 Thread Duncan Findlay
y.pdf Please feel free to forward this message to anyone that may interested. References are available on request. Thank you, Duncan Findlay [1] More precisely, I'd like to work May, June and the first little bit of July. I am going to be travelling in Europe for the last half of the summer, fro

Re: OKAY I'am the black man !!!

2005-12-05 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:28PM +0100, Christian Eichert wrote: > Duncan Findlay wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:35:23PM +0100, Christian Eichert wrote: > > > >>:) ... shoot me! [this was 1 (one) line]greetings Chris :)) > > > > > > This racis

Re: OKAY I'am the black man !!!

2005-12-04 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:35:23PM +0100, Christian Eichert wrote: > :) ... shoot me! [this was 1 (one) line]greetings Chris :)) This racism has no place on the SpamAssassin mailing lists. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-11-30 Thread Duncan Findlay
packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_3.0.3-2/changelog or /usr/share/doc/spamassassin/changelog.Debian.gz spamassassin (3.0.3-2) stable-security; urgency=high * Security release to fix potential DoS caused by large headers (CAN-2005-1266) -- Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL P

Re: arrrgh.. debian sarge spamassassin worthless?

2005-09-23 Thread Duncan Findlay
chance to package 3.1.0 yet. :-( It wouldn't take me long to do it, but I don't have the time to test it adequately... :-( -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Availability for Debian

2005-09-19 Thread Duncan Findlay
which is unfortunately a little longer than I'd like right now. :-( I hope to get it out soon. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using "-C" command-line option breaks spamd

2005-09-05 Thread Duncan Findlay
sentially no rules, which, not surprisingly, doesn't mark anything as spam. So, either copy everything into your -C directory, from /usr/share/spamassassin (or equivalent) and /etc/spamassassin (or equivalent), or just edit the files in /etc/spamassassin (possibly /etc/mail/spamassassin inste

Debian Packages for 3.1.0-rc2

2005-08-30 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:41:39PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > *** THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE ONLY, NOT THE FINAL 3.1.0 RELEASE *** > > SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc2 is released! SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a major > update. SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical >

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc2 release candidate available!

2005-08-30 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:21:20PM -0700, John Rudd wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:57:31PM -0700, John Rudd wrote: > >>Does this fix the problem with SIGCHLD? > > > >Do you have a bug number? What

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc2 release candidate available!

2005-08-29 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:57:31PM -0700, John Rudd wrote: > Does this fix the problem with SIGCHLD? Do you have a bug number? What problem with SIGCHLD are you talking about? -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc2 release candidate available!

2005-08-29 Thread Duncan Findlay
nfiguration file using the -F switch, contributed by John Madden. - added SPF-based whitelisting. - Polish rules contributed by Radoslaw Stachowiak. - many rule changes and additions. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wanted: Better Documentation

2005-08-26 Thread Duncan Findlay
i contributions too, just as easily; without the Bugzilla overhead. So to summarise: to help contribute documentation, either a) Post to the Wiki, or b) File a bug (preferably with a patch). If we like what you do, we'll consider giving commit access. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Wanted: Better Documentation

2005-08-21 Thread Duncan Findlay
ocumentation. So, here's the link: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation Happy editing! We appreciate your help. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MTA developer question

2005-07-14 Thread Duncan Findlay
fy as an "anti spam > accredited system". Essentially you would need to come up with a system in which sent mail can be identified as ham with very minimal false positives, and very minimal potential for abuse. (Hint: this is very difficult) Also, it has to be palatable for the community. (This i

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.0pre1 PRERELEASE available!

2005-06-18 Thread Duncan Findlay
pre-release on a production server (obviously). Since the scores haven't been adjusted, you will likely get FPs or FNs beyond what you would usually expect. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] GPG Keysigning at Linux World

2005-02-10 Thread Duncan Findlay
7;d probably be lynched if I signed someone's key without checking a government issued ID. (Hence, why I have signed very few keys.) -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

SpamAssassin Developer for Hire

2005-01-03 Thread Duncan Findlay
ng this request, Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT - How often to reboot?

2004-11-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
and > find out if it works than to find out it doesn't at 5 am after a power > outage. ;) Presumably you can test startup scripts without actually rebooting... rebooting to test a startup script seems so windows-ish. On debian: /etc/init.d/foo stop /etc/init.d/foo start shoul

Re: Load Average Problems

2004-10-31 Thread Duncan Findlay
es: > > # Source spamd configuration. > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin ] ; then > . /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin > else > SPAMDOPTIONS="-d -c -m5 -Hi --user-config" > fi Sorry, Mandrake not Debian. Anyways, change options in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin, I think. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Load Average Problems

2004-10-31 Thread Duncan Findlay
t the socket being in use. > > What am I missing? - John If you're using Debian, and from the sounds of it, you are, command line options are set in /etc/default/spamassassin. Try adding/subtracting options there. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: AWL question

2004-10-01 Thread Duncan Findlay
without it. If you lower the score to -100, it'll add roughly 50 points assuming the long term average is roughly 0. (My recollection of this is a little hazy and I can remember the mathematical formula, but there doesn't seem to be a problem here.) -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: shifting the midpoint between the average spam and average ham

2004-09-03 Thread Duncan Findlay
iply all the scores by a certain factor. If your current "middle" is 2.0, multiply all scores by 2.5, so your ham average becomes 2.5 and your spam average becomes 7.5. -- Duncan Findlay signature.asc Description: Digital signature