Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-20 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: The downside is that this is not "confirmed ham" and "confirmed spam". (nod) Exactly. And that is what is needed to do a masscheck... I wonder how much companies would pay for a part time SpamAssassin honcho who can be trusted (bonded?) and can write SARE-ish

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-20 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: I'm just a touch naive here; but, it seems to me it should be possible, somehow, to build running spamd daemons, one with the regular rules and one with the mass check rules. There's nothing special about "masscheck rules". Masscheck is just running the curren

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-20 Thread jdow
From: "Charles Gregory" Sent: Sunday, 2009/December/20 06:20 On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: More unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent me from building a useful corpus of ham. Sigh But otherwise such a good idea Can you not trust yourself to use your own ham? You d

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-20 Thread Warren Togami
On 12/20/2009 09:20 AM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: More unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent me from building a useful corpus of ham. Sigh But otherwise such a good idea Can you not trust yourself to use your own ham? You don't need to provi

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-20 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: More unfortunately, privacy concerns prevent me from building a useful corpus of ham. Sigh But otherwise such a good idea Can you not trust yourself to use your own ham? You don't need to provide us with your mail. You can scan your own ma

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-19 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 19/12/2009 5:51 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Warren Togami wrote: >> Why wait, when you do relatively simple things to help make it happen? >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck >> We can more frequently update rules if more people participate in the >> nig

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-19 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Warren Togami wrote: Why wait, when you do relatively simple things to help make it happen? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck We can more frequently update rules if more people participate in the nightly masschecks. The current documentation is a bit of a

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 5:13 PM, Warren Togami wrote: > On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: >>> We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - >>> i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated >>> masschecks, it would

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Warren Togami
On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated masschecks, it would be automatically scored and published via sa-update. Mu

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Perhaps you meant CHAIR and keyboard? ;) I should have guessed you've managed to short circuit the path through your brain. {O,o} <-- Grinning, ducking, and running REAL fast that way> (Thanks for the straight line. {^_-}) (Thinks twice about it) Ou

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: "Charles Gregory" Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 13:49 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? Yes, there is, Mr. Gregory. It exists between your m

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated masschecks, it would be automatically scored and published via sa-update. Music to my ears. I will wait (semi-)patiently. T

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? Yes, there is, Mr. Gregory. It exists between your monitor and your keyboard. There is a one inch gap between those

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: I recognize, from the existence of such sites as 'rules du jour' that it has long been a practice for SA to release 'core' rule updates very infrequently. But with respect, I question whether that is still a good practice, particularly when an 'issue

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: It's already been stayed no changes to 3.2.5 will be made until 3.3 is done, hasn't it? Well, at this point, I respectfully bow, and take a step back, so as not to sound too demanding of our great volunteers (smile), but I believe in another of my posts I p

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: "Charles Gregory" Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 06:56 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll raise the issue ag

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 18, 2009, at 7:56, Charles Gregory wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? It's already been stayed no changes to 3.2.5 will be made until 3.3 is done, hasn't it?

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll raise the issue again. Does that

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll raise the issue again. Does that seem fair? 50_scores.cf:score HABEAS_ACCREDITED_

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "J.D. Falk" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 11:21 On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: The fact is I *AM* their customer. The people writing them checks are not, they're just their funders. Whitelist companies ha to convince admins to use their list. The only way to do that is

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-17 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: > The fact is I *AM* their customer. The people writing them checks are not, > they're just their funders. Whitelist companies ha to convince admins to use > their list. The only way to do that is to have really really really high > quality lists that

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-16 Thread LuKreme
On 16-Dec-2009, at 08:03, Marc Perkel wrote: > Res wrote: >> >> no whitelist should ever become default part of SA >> >> the day it is, is the day I look elsewhere. > > Why shouldn't white lists become part of SA? Blacklists are part of SA. My > hostkarma whitelists are one of the things that k