On 8/6/2012 11:52 AM, John Hardin wrote:
All:
The masscheck corpora are persistently hovering just below the
thresholds needed for an automatic rules update to be generated, and
the complaints about the high scores for the 12LTRDOM and HDRS_LCASE
rules are getting louder.
I recommend the best immediate course of action would be to manually
update the 70_scores.cf file in the current updates tarball to set the
scores for these rules to advisory levels and release that as a new
update. I think this would be safer than pushing a manual rules update
using scores based on somewhat-starved corpora.
I'd be willing to do this but I don't know the details of where the
master update tarballs live or how to publish a new update to DNS.
Is there agreement that this is an appropriate course of action? I
someone who does know the details willing to do this?
I don't think this is the right action, really. I think we have to get
the infrastructure for mass checks working. I know that's my focus (and
I'm making good strides at work towards being able to focus more).
I think the key solution for people having problem is to run a slightly
older version of the update that has the better scores. If you identify
a good version, I believe there is a well document way to revert to that
version. But beyond that, contact me off-list and I'll discuss what I
can do to help.
Regards,
KAM
