Craig Hughes said:

> 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...

It would be very handy, however -- new rule development is a lot easier
with a good spam/nonspam corpus to test it against.   It's especially
useful for spotting FPs that are not obvious,  and would help decentralise
the rule QA process.

As someone suggested, maybe a good way around the security and
resource-usage implications is to make it a strict authenticated system...
that way at least you can *tell* who DoSed the server by accident ;)

--j.


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