On 19 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > 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...
Yes, sitewide. I'll pay attention - it's only about 2 MB bigger than when I mailed yesterday. If it is slowing down (which makes sense), I'll be OK for a while. And even if I have to clear it once a month, the benefits are still pretty big. > > 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'm sure there's something horrible about it, we just haven't thought of it yet. :-) > > 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. Hrm. I'm not a big fan of *automatic* MTA blocking - but the thought of using SA to manage a table for the MTA is interesting. While I'm brainstorming - it would be interesting to tarpit suspected spam senders. If a remote site crosses a certain spamminess threshold, bandwidth limit them? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
