On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:32, Michael Parker<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Justin Mason wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:46, Jeff Chan<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thursday, July 16, 2009, 1:40:34 PM, Justin Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One useful factor of ham is that it's not time-sensitive; a mail that
>>>> was ham in 2003 would still be ham today.  So we can collect old ham
>>>> mail archives, or submissions of relatively old mail, if necessary.
>>>
>>> This may be a false assumption.  A spamvertised or spam sending
>>> domain from 2003 could have expired and been re-registered by
>>> a different organization.  Same for ham.  Both ham and spam
>>> should have expiration times.  1 year would probably be good,
>>> since spamvertised domains probably don't get renewed.
>>
>> yep, I was talking with a SURBLer about this last week I think.  we
>> should probably add meta conditions ot the URIBL ruleset to ensure
>> they don't fire at all on old messages.
>
> This is a patch to the Reuse plugin I'd like to see, if someone has any
> ideas please speak up.

it'd work well there.  Pretend to be able to reuse previous hits, but
the actual effect would be to inhibit the rule entirely on old mails.

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--j.

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