Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Sniffer IP Reputation -- Graduated Weight Scheme

[Pete McNeil]

On 5/5/2010 1:30 PM, Andy Schmidt wrote: Hi Dave,   Hm – yes,I think if you added 21 lines (from -10 to 0 and to +10) to the config file, you would have could cover the reputation range from -1 to +1  in 0.1 step increments.   Not elegant – but would have the same effect as multiplying the reputation range with the defined max weight. I hate to muddy the waters further -- but we solved this problem once when developing the envelope management bit of GBUdb. It might be complicated to explain, but suppose you define the slope at a given point for each line you specify and then have the resulting weight be a linear transform (as was discussed before). Then you would need only two entries by default... One that describes full-scale + and another that defines full scale -. If you find the need to alter the slope then you can add additional points in between. The math works by drawing a straight line from 0 to the next defined point, and from that point to the extreme, and so on. Personally I think it is overkill -- but if you're going to talk about making many many lines for this then the multi-point curve interpolation is the way to go. In practice the best way _seems_ to be to provide only two slopes -- one positive going, one negative going -- and to establish a weight based on those slopes. Theoretically that could be defined on a single Declude test definition line. Is there some constraint that I don't know about causing folks to consider more complexity? Hope this is helpful, _M -- President MicroNeil Research Corporation www.microneil.com --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to imail...@declude.com, and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.