On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 15:27, Matt Kettler wrote: > 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!)
The thought that comes immediately to my mind is that maybe we should all be sharing our personal rules more. I'm sure everyone here has a few "works for me" type rules they're afraid to share because either they think the rule only suits their own spam or they don't want to give the rule to the spammers. If we compiled and published a page of well-documented user's rules it would be useful as a learning aid, the sheer diversity of possible "works for me" combinations would present a total minefield for any spammer trying to abuse it, and any feedback on those rules might help the SA developers choose rules or ideas to adopt from. It would also ensure that we aren't all sat at home re-inventing the wheel, figuring out solutions to installation-specific or very small SA rule problems when others have already done so. -- Yorkshire Dave ------------------------------------------------------- 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
