As an ISP we decide the best way to handle spam was to rank and tag so the user can decide, in this case we must have all tests process so that the rankings are accurate. If Scott's team were to add some mechanism to optionally process portions, that would be fine, at least his team understands that what makes this possibly the best mail scanning suite in existence, is the fact that they keep in mind that what works for you doesn't necessarily work for me (so many other companies ignore that).
If someone does implement RegEx, it needs to be a limited or specialized version since they can reprocess a single word many times looking for the best match (try looking at the theory behind RegEx engines, it can only be process intensive, especially when compared to simple string matches like Declude currently uses). They need to not be greedy matches or better yet support a very small set of rules, an overly simplified engine could allow for word boundries and whitespace with optional letters and make word and phrase filters much more powerful. Thanks, Chuck Frolick ArgoNet, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Salmond Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 8:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Easy way to add power and flexibility. Interesting point, I hadn't considered tests that add a negative weight. (Although the default config only comes with two negatives as far as I know and I haven't had need to add others). However I think it would be safe to make some assumptions in the test process that could cut CPU time and still yield the type of accuracy we're used to. For instance, its very likely you'll have more tests that add to the weight than those which detract. So you could skip the detracting tests on those messages which haven't gathered enough weight from the adding tests to fail your threshold. Why bother if they're going to pass anyway right? Along the same line of thought, you could just stop processing additive tests after your weight threshold has been met and simply configure the detracting tests weight values according to your threshold. Thoughts? Rob Salmond Ontario Die Company (519)-576-8950 ext. 132 --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
