-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Quinlan [mailto:quinlan@pathname.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 9:13 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: 'SURBL Discussion list'; SpamAssassin-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] This ROCKS!
Chris Santerre csanterre@MerchantsOverseas.com writes:
Hey there guys! This was the crazy idea I was discussing
with Doc. I wished
for a realtime form of DB or flat file to be updated
continuously on rule
hits. No grepping thru logs or anything. Simply when an
email is sent thru
SA, whatever rules hit, increase a counter in a db or flat
file for that
rule. Seperate db or flat file for ham and spam. This gives
live stats on a
system. No grep'n going on. Just a counter per rule.
That might give you a good hit rate, but it won't give you an accurate S/O number.
Well if it counts spam and ham hits, then an S/O is but a division away ;)
This is to be used on some advanced rule writing we want to
work on. It also
alows an admin to see what might not be worth keeping
around. Allowing them
to remove poor performers and increase system speed.
Sort of like http://www.pathname.com/~corpus/DETAILS.new ?
Sort of. I didn't know you guys did that nightly. Very nice. I'm looking for a more localized process that doesn't require a run of anything. Having counters generated means just checking totals. And even if one didn't use the exact same rules as another, they could easily combine totals for the ones they do.
However your method is more accurate.
The corpora have to be sorted by humans to be accurate and runs need to be synchronized so everyone tests the same rules so runs only happen once a day, which is fast enough.
We've been doing this for well over a year and it works great. If only we had more active developers working on rules...
I'm not quite sure how to take that last line.
Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
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