On Tue, 23 May 2006, Justin Mason wrote:
> by the way, you might be interested in the work being done on
> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=3109 --
> short-circuiting, so that if one of a set of rules fires, the scan
> immediately exits.
>
> It's in a branch at the moment, due to some disagreement about whether
> it should go into the mainline. But it sounds like it'd be useful
> for what you're thinking of.
Thanks for the reference - I'll check into it.
I recall suggesting that very idea to someone on the spamassassin
project, but never joined the lists to pursue it further. It's been a
while.