Hello Justin, Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 1:32:01 PM, you wrote:
JM> I've been thinking about this a little, and using list-driven mass-checks JM> actually works pretty well when you think about it -- no need to JM> install svn, no need to even maintain a corpus. writing rules is JM> all that's needed. Works exceedingly well in SARE. JM> fwiw, if the list is archived (possibly privately in an mbox somewhere) JM> it's still tracked and version-controlled that way anyway, even if JM> svn isn't in the picture. This has come in handy -- it's enabled us to compare performance between two or three different versions of the rule, simply by comparing Monday evening's response email to Tuesday morning's to Tuesday afternoon's. JM> Could the list be a semi-private one, with moderated subscription and JM> posting? That'd take care of rules in development being exposed JM> to spammers while they're still being worked on, at least partially. That's the way SARE has ours implemented. But then, it's easy to control subscriptions to an invitation-only group... Bob Menschel
