On 08/30/2016 09:59 AM, Merijn van den Kroonenberg wrote:
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Anthony Hoppe wrote:
I just learned about the sought ruleset via
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ImproveAccuracy. Is this ruleset
still actively maintained? I'm considering implementing it in my
environment, but want to make sure just in case.
Sadly, no. I think it's been at least a couple of years since they were
regenerated.
Why was it discontinued, not effective enough or did it take too much
resources/manpower?
Was it run against the same spam/ham corpus as is used for the rule
scoring/qa?
I now realize you asked about SOUGHT while I gave you a bit of SARE
history .
SOUGHT rules were created by Justin Mason, SA's chief dev/inventor for
many years.
They were also independent from the Apache SpamAssassin project and when
he moved on to a new job area, he opted to shutdown the system.
It was not a simple setup or cheap to run.
Many of us learnt a lot from this rule generation method and thankfully
the basic code is in SA's SVN for ppl to glue their own rule generators.
I run such a rule generator at $dayjob but it's far from being portable.
For me it was a very steep learning curve.. :)
(Thanks JM for helping out, back then)
Axb
