On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, poifgh wrote:
Other than the sought rules, all the rules are manually generated? Is there any statistics on how frequently are new rules/regex adopted by spamassasssin? Who are the people who write them? Any details related to it?
Most of the rules are manually written by contributors such as myself. Some meta rules are generated by various means from existing rules - for example, the ADVANCE_FEE rules are generated using genetic algorithms to find effective combinations of simpler subrules that were manually generated.
New rules are added whenever a contributor works on them, and this is generally based on when they have time to do so, when they have new ideas, and when new forms of spam appear. Indirect contributors will post rules to the users list and a contributor may add them to the rules sandbox for testing and eventual inclusion in the base ruleset.
The CREDITS file in the sources should list all of the contributors. Some contributors may not have added their names to that file, though.
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