-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > Justin Mason wrote: >> Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: >>> Justin Mason wrote: >>>> Maybe we should simply not publish a new active.list or rule updates >>>> after >>>> a weekly -net mass-check -- it always seems to have significantly >>>> different freqs, probably due to smaller amounts of mail being checked. >>> Hmm... that might be it. This one just caught my eye as it happened >>> to remove all of the new rules and a lot more other rules than normal >>> for a -net mass-check. I just find it odd that *all* of the new >>> rules were removed this time using the same submitters as the >>> previous week. >> >> I wonder if that indicates that old mail is being mass-checked? >> >> Some of the corpora are very out of date -- we should probably change >> the backend to be more stringent about measuring rates against only >> the freshest spam... > > That could be it. Theo's non-net mass-check goes back 90 days, while > his net mass-check goes back 35 days. Combined with me not getting > around to setting up net mass-checks (my non-net mass-checks go back 42 > days), now that I've got a broadband connection again, we could be > introducing considerable bounce right there. This weekend's -net > mass-check based active.list should make it clear as to whether it was a > ruleqa glitch or a corpora age issue. > > On the other hand, a lot of similar/identical spam seems to disappear > and reappear a few times over the course of about two months or so, so > we don't want too narrow a view. > > >>> In any case, yeah, we need to introduce some dampening in the rule >>> promotion/demotion to prevent rule bounce. I've got a few loose >>> ideas on how to do it, not sure when I'll have time to look into it >>> though. >> >> +1. anything you come up with will probably be better than what we >> have now, ie. nothing ;) > > ha -- now there's a vote of confidence if I ever saw one! :) > > > Daryl
My corpus there I know is way out of date. I think I should just dump it and start over. Also I'm +1 in volunteering Daryl, HAR! /me runs and hides - -- -Doc Penguins: Do it on the ice. 8:44am up 4 days, 16:55, 17 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.37 SARE HQ http://www.rulesemporium.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQOC9qOEeBwEpgcsRAkrnAJ4g/6YJNWMJ7gXUZdI37cKQOr1JRACfdHBT YQiccLut5PWvb/jVIw3ydRE= =zrrc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
