(*please* stop posting in HTML craig - it's a real PITA, especially because Outlooks "switch" to plain text doesn't do nice reply-quoting)
Can you tell us how the auto-whitelist algorithm works? Surely it should be an average system, so that 3 spams over time don't have much effect on the overall score. A simple way to do this is to make two keys for each address: score:<address>=2.3, and count:<address>=57. Then every time calculate a new average (((2.3 * 57) + new_score)/58). Matt. -- <:->Get a smart net</:-> > -----Original Message----- >From: Craig Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 21 January 2002 08:02 >To: Justin Mason >Cc: Aaron Swartz; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist improvement ideas > >Spinning off this initial topic, I'm interested in hearing feedback from people on auto-whitelists. My own experience is that some "gray" spammers (people whose junk I might well have accidentally subscribed to in the past) tend to over time become auto-whitelisted (say they send 100 emails over time, and 3 of them are not marked as spam). Anyone else seeing this? It certainly tends to be in borderline cases, but could a few of you run the tools/check_whitelist script from CVS and scan the output for sanity? I think we need to make some changes to how the auto- part of auto-whitelisting works, but thought feedback might be useful before going and just hacking based on my own observations. > >C > >On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 23:55, Justin Mason wrote: > >Craig Hughes said: > >> You also forgot to mention one of the most-fun features of 2.0: >> auto-whitelists. > >duh! Yep, that's a biggie: automatically adds the email addresses of >nonspam senders to a database, so their mails won't get scanned in >future. > >Since current spammer state of the art is to use randomly-generated >addresses, this turns that on its head nicely. > >--j. > > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk >________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
