Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why the updates on the rulesmporium rules have dropped so drastically lately? I understand that the authors all have other things to do, and I am EXTREMELY GRATEFUL for all their hard work. I was just wondering if there were any other reasons.
Nope, that's the reason. Bob was doing most of the updates and has the biggest masscheck corpus and automated scoring tools. He was doing most of the rule testing/merging/releasing. Unfortunately his $dayjob is now also eating virtually all of his time day and night, so he rarely gets time to do anything but work and sleep.
The rest of us have also had similar problems, with work overcoming any useful part of our lives. A couple of us are still managing to update the stock rules. Which fortunately is one of the most active spam areas.
Hopefully "life" will calm down in a while and we will be able to get time to do some useful stuff again.
Loren