Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-16 Thread Daniel Olmedilla
Hi to all again, please read till the end. There I show some of the results I get from the autowhitelist. Just for you to which kind of information I get from it :-). > >In fact he is right in the fact that the autowhitelist is kept in memory. > >However, it keeps only the e-mail addres and two

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:31 PM 10/15/2004, Daniel Olmedilla wrote: In fact he is right in the fact that the autowhitelist is kept in memory. However, it keeps only the e-mail addres and two numbers for each row so assuming for example an average of 50 bytes per e-mail address (quite long) and two numbers, even if you

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Daniel Olmedilla
Thank you Mark for your checks. In fact he is right in the fact that the autowhitelist is kept in memory. However, it keeps only the e-mail addres and two numbers for each row so assuming for example an average of 50 bytes per e-mail address (quite long) and two numbers, even if you had 100.00

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:19 AM 10/15/2004, Martin Hepworth wrote: hmm great, perl malware :-) More seriously, anyone checked the code for nasties... Disclaimer: I'm no perl expert, so treat my analysis that of someone with limited experience. I inspected the code and saw nothing terribly suspicious in my limited u

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Daniel Olmedilla
Humm. I didn't expect this :-). I don't know what is "aka" but of course you can check my publications list at http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/pub/publications.html As you can see I have been working in e-learning and in information retrieval (with ranking algorithms and personalized web search). N

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
hmm great, perl malware :-) More seriously, anyone checked the code for nasties... -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Daniel Olmedilla wrote: Dear all, I am a Ph.D. student that works in Hanover (Germany). I am currently studying the distributio

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread sahil
Quoting Alex Broens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [Daniel's request] > aka harvesting? His request does seem a bit shady, but I'd google Dan's previous papers before jumping to conclusions. -- Sahil Tandon

Re: Spamassassin auto-whitelist research

2004-10-15 Thread Alex Broens
Daniel Olmedilla wrote: Dear all, I am a Ph.D. student that works in Hanover (Germany). I am currently studying the distribution of spam mails and e-mail addresses. For that I am gathering some information from e-mail distributions of institutions and also individuals. I developed a script that