Jeff Chan wrote to SURBL Discussion list and SpamAssassin Users:
On Sunday, September 5, 2004, 2:56:04 PM, Ryan Thompson wrote:
FWIW, the mass-check I did on that 75K corpus took about 1.75h, on a beefy machine with rbldnsd running on localhost, with 20 concurrent jobs. (mass-check is slower than molasses for anything that blocks if you don't let it run concurrent jobs :-)
One shortcut, which may be adequate for purposes of cleaning up the SURBL data, might be to simply extract the URI domains from the ham corpus, sort and unique that list, then compare that ham URI domain list against the SURBL under test. Hits could be matched up against the source message. Since the hits are relatively few that could save much processing over using full SA on every message.
Yeah. The *best* solution would be to have our own mass-checker. My GetURI (http://ry.ca/geturi/) could probably be extended for the task without much work, since it already extracts URIs and is capable of producing statistics.
Maybe if I wired it to *also* accept a ham directory, it could cross-check domains in both corpora and list possible FPs.
Yeah. Next version.
;-)
- Ryan