Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-21 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Justin Mason wrote: it can be measured by finding the WL rule's page on ruleqa.spamassassin.org, then examining the OVERLAP section for overlaps with BL rules. I'd expect that most whitelist operators will automatically de-list any IP which appears on a

Re: a.s.r (was Re: habeas - tainted white list)

2009-12-21 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, J.D. Falk wrote: That's IT! PORNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION! Sorry. Already been tried. But no matter what we called it, the users still didn't appreciate their computers or network going down on them. :) - C PS. Let's not get started on how hard disks are smaller than

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-19 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Res wrote: the only person here at present trolling is you, so for F's sake STFU and stop generating massive noise ratio (nod) Done. - C

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On 18-Dec-2009, at 00:24, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: From the data we have from mass-checks we are erring a very small amount on the side of caution by not disabling the whitelists by default. I guess that the real issue that I have with the whole HABEAS thing is the magnitude of the default

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 18 dec 2009 08:13:31 CET, Christian Brel wrote * [212.159.7.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] Yet the same IP is on and off SORBS and part of an ongoing spam problem. Perhaps this can be reviewed and given a zero score by default? see dnswl homepage, there is NONE, LOW, MED, HI, the

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:24:45 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: Reputation type rules (such as DNSWLs) are probably the only (or certainly one of the very few) types of rules that you can weight heavily negatively. This is due to the nature of an open source product (or

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 3:09 AM, LuKreme wrote: On 18-Dec-2009, at 00:24, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: From the data we have from mass-checks we are erring a very small amount on the side of caution by not disabling the whitelists by default. I guess that the real issue that I have with the whole

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:32 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: Please stop beating the -4 and -8 horse. We agree. Daryl Then fix it and show who really is in charge of this project? -- This e-mail and any attachments may form pure opinion and may not have any

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 3:32 AM, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:24:45 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: Reputation type rules (such as DNSWLs) are probably the only (or certainly one of the very few) types of rules that you can weight heavily negatively. This is

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 18 dec 2009 10:07:55 CET, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote If you like you can transparently disable the DNSWLs. or create a bug to have dnswl use trusted_networks from local.cf in spamassassin -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html pgpfoovQHfqN5.pgp Description: PGP

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:32, Christian Brel brel.spamassassin091...@copperproductions.co.uk wrote: the issue of having that score reduced in favour of a known commercial bulk mailer is undesirable. The trouble is you seem to consider ALL commercial senders to be spammers. That's just not

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:07:55 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: If everything is open and transparent give the default user the option to *enable* them and score them zero, unless - of course - there is some kind of logical reason for these mad scoring spam assisting

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 18, 2009, at 2:07, Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: I stand firm on my opinion that our principle of safe for most users is the logical reason for including DNSWLs. Just to be clear, despite my dislike of the HABEAS rules, I am not a tinfoil-hat nutter thinking

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:21:00 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:32, Christian Brel brel.spamassassin091...@copperproductions.co.uk wrote: the issue of having that score reduced in favour of a known commercial bulk mailer is undesirable. The trouble is you

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 18 dec 2009 10:23:48 CET, Christian Brel wrote If you like you can transparently disable the DNSWLs. I found it much more useful to apply them as blocklists and give the a +4/+8 myself - but that's a personal choice. and No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=SPF_SOFTFAIL is also a personal

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:33:31 +0100 Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote: On fre 18 dec 2009 10:23:48 CET, Christian Brel wrote If you like you can transparently disable the DNSWLs. I found it much more useful to apply them as blocklists and give the a +4/+8 myself - but that's a personal

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:29:56 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I might agree with some small portion of our resident troll's posts, You need to resort to abuse for what particular reason? -- This e-mail and any attachments may form pure opinion and may not have any factual foundation.

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:49 +, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:32 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: Please stop beating the -4 and -8 horse. We agree. Daryl Then fix it and show who really is in charge of this project? It's been

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:49:41 -0600 Daniel J McDonald dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:49 +, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:32 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: Please stop beating the -4 and -8 horse. We agree.

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
dnswl.org does offer trusted_networks-formatted files (separated by our trust levels), but beware of bug 5931 for older versions of SA: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5931 -- Matthias Am 18.12.2009 um 10:17 schrieb Benny Pedersen: On fre 18 dec 2009 10:07:55 CET,

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: If we had more mass-check data from a wider number of mail recipients maybe it would change things, statistically, maybe it wouldn't. New mass-check contributors are always welcome. They take very little effort to manage once you've set it up (I ignore mine for

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:29:56 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I might agree with some small portion of our resident troll's posts, You need to resort to abuse for what particular reason? Repeatedly accusing the SA developers of fraudulent

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:53 +, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:49:41 -0600 Daniel J McDonald dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:49 +, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:32 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:12:06 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:29:56 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I might agree with some small portion of our resident troll's posts, You need to resort to

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Would it be rude of me to ask how you make your money? Is it from the provision and delivery of bulk commercial email or am I confused? Wow. People are running down ReturnPath and they don't even have a clear idea of what RP *does*? How lame is that?

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:25 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:49:41 -0600 Daniel J McDonald dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 08:49 +, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:53:37 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Would it be rude of me to ask how you make your money? Is it from the provision and delivery of bulk commercial email or am I confused? Wow. People are running

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Why not default them to zero and include in the release notes/man that there are whitelists and they can *enable* them? Go read the archives, troll. - C

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: But they should not have to disable a whitelist that assists with the delivery of bulk commercial mail in an anti-spam application! If the sender is relying on such rules to keep the mailout under the radar then clearly there is something very wrong

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:26:28 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: But they should not have to disable a whitelist that assists with the delivery of bulk commercial mail in an anti-spam application! If the sender is relying on such

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:25 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: We understand your philosophical objection. Providing hard evidence of FNs will go much further towards making your point than name calling will. The name calling being?

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On he subject of Spammy whitelists... * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.159.7.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] Yet the same IP is on and off SORBS and part of an ongoing spam problem. Perhaps

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On he subject of Spammy whitelists... * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.159.7.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] Yet the same IP is on and off SORBS and part of an

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: You need to resort to abuse for what particular reason? Repeatedly accusing the SA developers of fraudulent collusion is abusive. Don't be surprised if people are abusive in return. That is your choice of words - not mine. It is interesting that when

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Would it be rude of me to ask how you make your money? Is it from the provision and delivery of bulk commercial email or am I confused? Wow. People are running down ReturnPath and they don't even have a clear

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: If a spammer gets an IP blacklisted, at the least DNSWL and HABEAS should make note of this and remove the IP Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go read the archives, troll. All of them or do you have something specific, troll? Fine, fine, pedant. Go SEARCH the archives, troll. :) - C

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get past the high negative score for the whitelists. Hm. I *like* that

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:18:46 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go read the archives, troll. All of them or do you have something specific, troll? Fine, fine, pedant. Go SEARCH the archives, troll. :) - C Perhaps I

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:03:38 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: You need to resort to abuse for what particular reason? Repeatedly accusing the SA developers of fraudulent collusion is abusive. Don't be surprised if people are

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go SEARCH the archives, troll. :) Perhaps I can help you understand why the question was asked on list. It's obvious as to why. You failed to read previous postings that answered the question the first time(s) you (or someone else) asked it

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:00:05 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go SEARCH the archives, troll. :) Perhaps I can help you understand why the question was asked on list. It's obvious as to why. You failed to read previous

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: There comes a time when you need to deal with that and move on. We are all grown up now and not - like you say - '5 6 year old children'. Good. Then stop talking like them. Please feel free to act like an adult and end the personal attacks, or, act

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Charles, you *are* speaking for J D Falk with his Auspices? Hey, J D! Please post and give me your auspices. I'd love to see what this Troll posts if you say 'sure'. :) - C

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 18, 2009, at 7:12, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:29:56 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I might agree with some small portion of our resident troll's posts, You need to resort to abuse for what particular

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:21:00 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: There comes a time when you need to deal with that and move on. We are all grown up now and not - like you say - '5 6 year old children'. Good. Then stop talking

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:29:40 -0500 (EST) Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Charles, you *are* speaking for J D Falk with his Auspices? Hey, J D! Please post and give me your auspices. I'd love to see what this Troll posts if you say 'sure'.

RE: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread R-Elists
or create a bug to have dnswl use trusted_networks from local.cf in spamassassin Benny can you help me / us better understand what you are getting at here and why? something you already do or implement? i wish i knew a better way to ask the question(s) so that you could better help

RE: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread R-Elists
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, yes. If it's that big a problem for you in real life, then you should be able to provide FNs to the masscheck corpora that will _prove_ these scores are too generous. We understand your philosophical objection. Providing hard evidence of

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: If a spammer gets an IP blacklisted, at the least DNSWL and HABEAS should make note of this and remove the IP Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 01:07 On 18/12/2009 3:32 AM, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:24:45 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: ... From the data we have from mass-checks we are erring a very small amount

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 06:12 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:29:56 -0700 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I might agree with some small portion of our resident troll's posts, You need to resort to abuse for

RE: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:42:55 PM CET, R-Elists wrote or create a bug to have dnswl use trusted_networks from local.cf in spamassassin can you help me / us better understand what you are getting at here and why? example: trusted_networks 127.128.0.0/16 and then if 127.128.128.128 is listed in

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 08:07 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:19:25 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: We understand your philosophical objection. Providing hard evidence of FNs will go much

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:18 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go read the archives, troll. All of them or do you have something specific, troll? Fine, fine, pedant. Go SEARCH the archives, troll. :) OK, (Problem Exists

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:21 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Rob McEwen
R-Elists wrote: here is a chance for possible help in more areas than just this specific ruleset issue... i asked Rob some time ago if he could write a script that would check logs and report if a certain rule was effective or not by itself vrs if other rules hit with it and maybe that rule

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:40:40 -0800 jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:18 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Go read the archives, troll. All of them or do you have something specific, troll? Fine, fine,

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: If a spammer gets an IP blacklisted, at the least DNSWL and HABEAS should make note of this and remove the IP Or we could have the whitelist

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Justin Mason
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 19:04, Jason Bertoch ja...@i6ix.com wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: If a spammer gets an IP blacklisted, at the least DNSWL and HABEAS should make note of this and remove the IP Or we could have

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: I suppose it's not a whole lot of bother to change the 3.2 scores. But, people who feel they have been bitten with a HABEAS score have probably already overridden them. Again, I make a note that my concern is for the thousands who install a 'pre-canned'

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get past the high negative score for the whitelists. Is there a way

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 13:46 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: I suppose it's not a whole lot of bother to change the 3.2 scores. But, people who feel they have been bitten with a HABEAS score have probably already overridden them. Again, I

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 2:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Jason Bertoch wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: If a spammer gets an IP blacklisted, at the least DNSWL and HABEAS should make note of this and remove the

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 4:46 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: I suppose it's not a whole lot of bother to change the 3.2 scores. But, people who feel they have been bitten with a HABEAS score have probably already overridden them. Again, I make a note that my concern is for

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 8:35 AM, Per Jessen wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: If we had more mass-check data from a wider number of mail recipients maybe it would change things, statistically, maybe it wouldn't. New mass-check contributors are always welcome. They take very little effort to manage

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 2:44 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: R-Elists wrote: here is a chance for possible help in more areas than just this specific ruleset issue... i asked Rob some time ago if he could write a script that would check logs and report if a certain rule was effective or not by itself vrs if

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Justin Mason wrote: Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get past the high negative score for the whitelists. it can be measured by

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Justin Mason wrote: Or we could have the whitelist rules in a meta such that they only hit when a blacklist rule doesn't, if this is a common enough problem. It might also allow people to get past the high negative

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Res
the only person here at present trolling is you, so for F's sake STFU and stop generating massive noise ratio On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Christian Brel wrote: Charles, you *are* speaking for J D Falk with his Auspices? Hey, J D! Please post and give

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
the mud when the topic has moved on? I wonder how long the thread will be left at the new 're: habeas - tainted white list'? How many will post using it? Or if those black helicopters and MIB's will seek to put a stop to it? -- This e-mail and any attachments may form pure opinion and may

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
if you do a search on emailreg.org and see it in the archives, it's probably not fair to drag their name through the mud when the topic has moved on? I wonder how long the thread will be left at the new 're: habeas - tainted white list'? How many will post using it? Or if those black helicopters

RE: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread R-Elists
I believe on the whole Warren Togami's posting about a whitelist performance on a masscheck settles the affair. White lists are very reliable. They are also very unnecessary within SpamAssassin. So perhaps the whole topic can die. I also note that the people complaining about the white

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:21:37 -0700 J.D. Falk jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org wrote: On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Christian Brel wrote: It's also fair to say any ESP such as Return Path taking money to deliver mail should be optimising it {or offering advice on optimisation) so it does

Re: [sa] Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: R-Elists list...@abbacomm.net Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 11:21 I believe on the whole Warren Togami's posting about a whitelist performance on a masscheck settles the affair. White lists are very reliable. They are also very unnecessary within SpamAssassin. So perhaps the whole

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 17/12/2009 2:21 PM, R-Elists wrote: ...based upon Togami's data processing, the biggest thing that comes to mind is this... *IF* these or similar rulesets are not truly not making a difference one way or the other, then why are they there? why do we really need them or the other

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:51:35 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: I think the current score changes are a good step. Another step may be including in the release notes that there are whitelists and that people may want to disable them by score whatever rules (a list of

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:03 +1300 Michael Hutchinson packetl...@ping.net.nz wrote: Everyone else started carrying on about the Habeas rules being present at all, when it is more than within their power to disable those rules. But they should not have to disable a whitelist that assists with

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: Christian Brel brel.spamassassin091...@copperproductions.co.uk Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 22:11 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:51:35 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: I think the current score changes are a good step. Another step may be including in the release

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: Christian Brel brel.spamassassin091...@copperproductions.co.uk Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 22:22 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:03 +1300 Michael Hutchinson packetl...@ping.net.nz wrote: Everyone else started carrying on about the Habeas rules being present at all, when it is more than

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On he subject of Spammy whitelists... * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.159.7.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] Yet the same IP is on and off SORBS and part of an ongoing spam problem. Perhaps this can be reviewed and given a zero

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 1:11 AM, Christian Brel wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:51:35 -0500 Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca wrote: I think the current score changes are a good step. Another step may be including in the release notes that there are whitelists and that people may want to

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 1:22 AM, Christian Brel wrote: The issues here are clear: *The inclusion of white list that pretty much favours a single commercial mail organisation. At present, to my knowledge Return Path is the only organization which has approached us for inclusion in SpamAssassin. We would

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 2:13 AM, Christian Brel wrote: On he subject of Spammy whitelists... * -1.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [212.159.7.100 listed in list.dnswl.org] Yet the same IP is on and off SORBS and part of an ongoing spam