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wtogami at redhat

Sep 2, 2008, 3:54 PM

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sa-update rule frequency?

Hi folks,

Question from our IT team. How frequently does the data downloaded from
sa-update typically get updated? They are currently seeing the latest
update of August 3rd.

Warren Togami
wtogami[at]redhat.com


spamassassin at dostech

Sep 2, 2008, 5:12 PM

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Re: sa-update rule frequency? [In reply to]

On 02/09/2008 6:54 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Question from our IT team. How frequently does the data downloaded from
> sa-update typically get updated?

It currently takes enough new spam to bother someone enough to roll an
update manually. I haven't got anywhere near enough spam to bother me
in ages.

At some point soon, where soon could be a month from now or a year from
now, hopefully closer to before the end of this year, I hope to make
publishing manually created rules more of an automated process.

> They are currently seeing the latest
> update of August 3rd.

[dos[at]wally asf-sa-updates]$ ls -l `dig txt
5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org +short | cut -d'"' -f2`*
-r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 126853 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 823 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz.asc
-r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 56 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz.sha1
[dos[at]wally asf-sa-updates]$


Daryl


wtogami at redhat

Sep 2, 2008, 5:17 PM

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Re: sa-update rule frequency? [In reply to]

Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> On 02/09/2008 6:54 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Question from our IT team. How frequently does the data downloaded from
>> sa-update typically get updated?
>
> It currently takes enough new spam to bother someone enough to roll an
> update manually. I haven't got anywhere near enough spam to bother me
> in ages.
>
> At some point soon, where soon could be a month from now or a year from
> now, hopefully closer to before the end of this year, I hope to make
> publishing manually created rules more of an automated process.
>
>> They are currently seeing the latest
>> update of August 3rd.
>
> [dos[at]wally asf-sa-updates]$ ls -l `dig txt
> 5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org +short | cut -d'"' -f2`*
> -r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 126853 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz
> -r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 823 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz.asc
> -r--r--r-- 1 dos dos 56 Aug 1 11:12 681717.tar.gz.sha1
> [dos[at]wally asf-sa-updates]$
>
>
> Daryl
>

Would more people contributing to the corpus help the updates to happen
more frequently?

Warren


spamassassin at dostech

Sep 2, 2008, 5:27 PM

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Re: sa-update rule frequency? [In reply to]

On 02/09/2008 8:17 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> Would more people contributing to the corpus help the updates to happen
> more frequently?

I'm sure it would help to make people more comfortable with the
automatic promotion and scoring of rules. The rules would still have to
be hand written, at least to start, but a larger corpus (particularly
ham corpus) would help QA wise.

Daryl


jm at jmason

Sep 3, 2008, 1:58 AM

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Re: sa-update rule frequency? [In reply to]

Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes:
> On 02/09/2008 8:17 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Would more people contributing to the corpus help the updates to happen
> > more frequently?
>
> I'm sure it would help to make people more comfortable with the
> automatic promotion and scoring of rules. The rules would still have to
> be hand written, at least to start, but a larger corpus (particularly
> ham corpus) would help QA wise.

Personally, I've been using the auto-generated 3.3.0 ruleset for many
months now, and haven't noticed any more FPs (although there's been
significantly fewer FNs) than with 3.2.x. So I think it's ready to go
when we release 3.3.0 ;)

--j.

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