I have a corpus of about 400,000 messages, against which I run mass-check every so often.
C Skip Montanaro wrote: SM> SM> SM> Aside from longer execution time, what's the downside of disabling SM> SM> network checks in the mass-check script? SM> SM> Craig> Well, speed, clogging your pipe, speed, flooding the servers, SM> Craig> speed, and last but not least, speed. Doing 400,000 RBL lookups SM> Craig> (to each RBL service), hundreds of thousands of DNS MX lookups, SM> Craig> 400,000 razor lookups, 400,000 DCC lookups, etc, etc is nasty. SM> SM> Yes, but isn't this distributed over time and space? If I run mass-check on SM> my small corpus of 2,000 or so messages then send you the output that's the SM> only time all those lookups need to be run, correct? In fact, if people are SM> running these checks anyway in the normal course of doing their SA business, SM> couldn't the results be tossed into a header in a mass-check-compatible way SM> that a procmail rule (or something similar) could automatically extract? _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
