On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 08:03 AM, Justin Mason wrote:
> > Patrice Fournier said: > >> I was wondering if there was someplace where we could have a new rule >> tested automatically against both spam and non-spam corpus to see how >> effective it is. Is this something everyone must make on their own or >> there is some email/web interface to such a service someplace? > > I like the idea -- but finding time to write a CGI is the issue. > Also there's security implications for the host, as Perl 5 regexps > allow shelling out into arbitrary perl code, so that would have to > be investigated, and sanitising code written... :( And there's also the computation time involved in checking a rule -- particularly when said rule might be poorly written and have unpleasant regex characteristics. Could easily lead to deliberate of accidental DoS attacks against the machine hosting the CGI. I think it's somewhat impractical unfortunately... ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
