Ahh.  Ok, perhaps I want to avoid them, then... :-D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Axb" <axb.li...@gmail.com>
To: "SpamAssassin" <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 10:42:08 PM
Subject: Re: SoughtRules

On 08/30/2016 07:32 AM, jdow wrote:
> On 2016-08-29 17:51, li...@rhsoft.net wrote:
>>
>> Am 30.08.2016 um 02:45 schrieb John Hardin:
>>> 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
>>
>> but they still hit junkmails and are even part of the fedora default
>> install
>> pulled with the first "sa-update"
>>
>> rpm -q --file /etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf
>> spamassassin-3.4.1-9.fc24.x86_64
>>
>> cat /etc/mail/spamassassin/channel.d/sought.conf
>> # http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules
>> CHANNELURL=sought.rules.yerp.org
>> KEYID=6C6191E3
>> # Ignore everything below.
>> return 0
>>
>
>
> The late lamented SARE rule sets also work remarkably well if you
> captured a suitable snapshot.
>
> {^_-}

But some are a huge source of FPs...

After SARE shutdown I dumped the last release (for posterity)
https://sourceforge.net/p/sare/code/HEAD/tree/rules/DO-NOTUSE-rulesets-obsolete-/

be VERY carefull when playing with them - they are a huge 7 year old can 
of worms.

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