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Daniel Quinlan writes:
> Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, that mostly sums up my feelings.  The current RBL information tells
> > us when a positive lookup occurs, but not when a negative lookup occurs.
> 
> True, you have to assume a negative lookup if it doesn't show and the
> "reuse" mapping indicates it was present.  I'll provide a way for people
> to disable reuse for rules that they normally don't run with.

something in the mass-check user_prefs file, maybe.

> Note that even if some of those non-hits are due to downtime or timeouts
> or whatever, those *should* be considered as the realtime result since
> they affect accuracy.

yes, that's very true.

> > I'd really like to have RBL record all queries made and the results
> > thereof, then all the issues above go away -- name changes and logic
> > changes just look at the cached result, rule additions w/out cached
> > result cause lookups at run-time as they are now.
> 
> Maybe, but that is still off in the future.  Huge delay to get that
> throughout all mail.  We get 97% with names and 99% with names and
> dates.

a case of the best being the enemy of the good, I think.

- --j.
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