On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 01:34, Charlie Watts wrote: > I've been using the AWL with no problems for a little over a week now. I > just wanted to mention this in reply to my earlier "it's broken" message. > I dunno what the problem was before. I don't think it was one. > > My AWL database is rapidly getting big. It's up to 23MB and growing.
Sitewide AWL I'm guessing. In theory, the rate of growth should slow over time, as people will soon have swapped emails with most of the people they're likely to swap with... > Any suggestions for how to keep it from growing without bound? Obviously > it gets more useful the more info it has - perhaps some way to harvest > senders who have sent under a certain number of messages, and have been > idle for a certain period of time? Obviously it would need to keep a > timestamp as well. That's probably not a terrible idea. I had thought of including a time field too for exactly this reason. Perhaps I'll add it in the next version. > I see paired entries in the database: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] = 6 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]|totscore = 34.98 > What do these both mean? The first is the number of messages from that sender. The second is the sum of the scores of those 6 messages. The AWL will then contribute some fraction of 34.98/6 to the next message it sees from that user. > Another few AWL thoughts: > > Distributed AWL. This is mostly interesting to me because I have a few > mail servers. The politics of sharing an AWL with others are more > complicated than I want to think about. (This wouldn't be hard). It would be pretty trivial to use some kind of remote database instead of DBAnyFile -- happily will accept any such stuff for inclusion in the distro. > Domain-based AWL, instead of E-mail address-based? I'm not sure about this > one - on the one hand, I get nothing but spam from some domains (I try to > just block them at the MTA, but don't catch them in the first few hours), > but some domains are pretty mixed. (yahoo, aol, hotmail). Yeah, it's possible that this would be useful. Probably MTA rules or regular SA whitelist/blacklist would be better though in most cases. C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
