On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 09:48 AM 6/26/03 -0400, Jack Gostl wrote: > > >What really worries me is the growing number of messages between 4.5 and > >5. Many of these already have a Bayes score of 90+. > > Agreed, this is why rule development for SA always has been, and always > will be, an arms race. > > Spammers are aware of SpamAssassin. Spammers are tuning their mails to try > to take advantage of it. > > If they were not, SA 1.0 would have been the end of SA development. > > Unfortunately developing good rules is a very labor-intensive task. The > 2.5x family is, at least in my opinion, slightly weaker in the rules > department than some of its predecessors. This weakness in the rules is the > result of the effort involved in adding bayes, but bayes makes it > ultimately a much better spam combatting tool. > > I think that in 2.6x and 2.7x there's going to be an increased focus on > adding more rules, pruning out the bad ones, and trying to make existing > rules hard to forge. > > I also think that SA needs to start having more rules that target and > penalize abuse attempts, like the "mutiple mua" rule. > > To be honest, I'm hoping to have some time available to put in and help out > the SADevs work on this kind of stuff. But lately I've been pretty busy > with other things (as is evidenced by my lack of time to do a last-pass on > the rule-writing guide... soon, I mean it!)
I can't tell what part of the world you are writing from, but I'm glad SOMEONE is busy. (G) There is a dark side to all of this. We had a server that was perfectly satisfactory. SpamAssassin uses so much CPU (NOT A COMPLAINT - DO YOU HEAR ME DEVELOPERS - THAT'S NOT A COMPLAINT!) that we have to upgrade. -- Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
