And, hey, if you've got ESP math working even to the point of a test release, you can quit your day job.
I haven't actually noticed it to be a useful blacklisting tool, anyway. I've had it in my head that it could be useful as both, but haven't seen it dragging otherwise-uncaught spam across the threshold. On Thu, 2 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote: > I think that AWL will just be whitelist-only if you use -S; you're not going to > be able to get around that I think. If you use -S, you're not going to be able > to guess what the score would have been if you'd let thing keep running and not > short-circuited. I can't think of any posisble adjustment to AWL math that > could conceivably used, without getting into the realm of ESP math. That's part > of the penalty of using -S, but it's not like it's a severe penalty. The > auto-blacklist isn't super useful most of the time, because most spammers don't > re-user From addresses in the same way that "real" correspondents do. > > C > > Charlie Watts wrote: > > CW> I've been running with the site-wide AWL and the spamd -S early-terminate > CW> option. > CW> > CW> It has just occured to me that this will adjust the AWL math because I > CW> won't be getting "big" positive numbers into the AWL any more. > CW> > CW> And I suppose this makes it more of an Auto-WHITE-list than an Auto-WHITE > CW> & BLACK-list. > CW> > CW> Just musing out loud ... or perhaps an adjustment to the AWL math when -S > CW> is enabled would be in order. > > -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
