Re: Automatic Updates

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Matt Kettler writes:
>At 11:30 PM 2/9/04 -0500, Charles Gregory wrote:
>>A very good, compelling argument for the need to thoroughly
>>research/balance scoring, etc. However, I would still like to advocate the
>>idea of incremental rule 'adjustment'. Specifically, I think of the
>>rapidly evolving obfuscation of everyone's favourite V drug. The spammers
>>are adjusting their 'tricks' on an almost weekly basis, and it seems to me
>>that in many instances, the obfuscation is only a variant not caught by
>>spamassassin but does not represent a serious difference to the spam/ham
>>ratio. If SA checks for 'abc_d' and the following week the spammers start
>>using 'ab_cd', why should this take a month or so to update?
>
>
>Agreed, and this is currently the role filled by the add-on rulesets 
>written by many of the SA advocates and users (myself included).
>
>Ideally, it would be very beneficial if the add-on rulesets became more 
>organized and formalized via some kind of "micro GA" system with an 
>organized release and scoring system.

Well, we *are* looking for volunteers here ;)

We need someone to help out with rule QA and "folding back" into the main
set; I'd say we could do interim GA runs, but we haven't quite got to that
stage of discussion yet.  For now, we're just short-handed on that
side of things.

- --j.
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