[SURBL-Discuss] Re: [SURBL-Announce] ANNOUNCE: Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamCopURI 0.20

Jeff Chan jeffc at surbl.org
Sun Aug 1 01:58:03 CEST 2004


On Sunday, August 1, 2004, 12:06:42 AM, Eric Kolve wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:03:19PM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote:

>> 1.  Please make a default limit to the number of URIs checked per
>> message.  urirhssub and urirhsbl have limits of 20 randomly
>> chosen I believe.  That may be too low, but I believe it's
>> important to have some limit to cap DNS traffic to some
>> reasonable level.  IOW the parameter is a great idea, but we
>> probably should set it.  :-)

> I agree, though I didn't really want to break the way it worked
> for existing users.  I am fine with doing 20 random, though
> I would like to here from others on the list what they think
> it ought to be by default.

>> 2.  Network/Number looks like the syntax for CIDR notation;
>> something like 127.0.0.0+2 might be less potentially confusing.

> I was kind of worried it might cause confusion, but I figured
> I would just go with it...  I like your syntax more and I will 
> probably use that in the next release.

> --eric

If I may, I'd like to suggest making the changes relatively
quickly, since as we've found these things tend to take on
a life of their own.  Once people start doing things one way,
it seems to be pretty hard to get them to change to a new
way at times.  :-)

In some ways it's kind of clean to copy the a similar 20
random setting that SA 3.0 is using by default, though I
wouldn't mind hearing some comments from folks about this
also.  (I'm not convinced it's necessarily the best algorithm,
just that it is one.  ;-)

Jeff C.



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