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Nix writes: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Theo Van Dinter spake: > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 06:29:44PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > >> Hey -- I presume we won't be going ahead with this schedule, since > >> nobody's voted, explicitly given a thumbs-up, or updated the > >> details on how mass-checks now work in 3.1.0... > > > > Ok, so the first step is to announce this is coming up and have interested > > parties get accounts. That part hasn't really changed. > > [waves] > > I may still have an account (username `nix'): but that was a long, long > time ago --- pre-Apache, I think --- and I'm not sure if it's still > there. > > The hiatus has ended as I've found time to automate spam-corups > de-virus, de-bounce, and de-duping at last. > > I'm still not sure how intensely to de-dupe: should I zap articles with > identical bodies? identical bodies except for MIME headers? identical > bodies except for identifiable bayes poison? Until the obfu rules came > in, I'd have said the latter... but now I'm just zapping articles with > identical bodies and rule hits, as the obfu rules make it very likely > that two articles differing only in bayes poison will end in different > rule-hit partitions anyway.) Yeah, I think de-duping is a bit of a lost cause. I'd say if you see 50 copies of the same message arriving one after the other, go ahead and de-dupe, but in general, the volume is just too high to be able to humanly achieve this any more, so let's just not worry about it :( I've changed the guidelines on the wiki to reflect this. > > While waiting for that to complete (until Wednesday?), we can update > > the docs and do test runs to make sure it's all cool. > > Update docs, please! I've still got to work out what --reuse is for: > reusing hits on net rules from pre-existing spam-status lines? (If so, > how does this cater for newly added RBLs/URIBLs?) /me points at Daniel... he needs to update the doco. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCv0b7MJF5cimLx9ARAtSQAKCQTe9Neol+eOFyQJ42TQFo3W/CKgCeMO1J 4xMfTt2W9Tgoy27KT/ZhTgY= =KPwj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
