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: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Henrik K wrote: Ok, while DNS would allow that, it would be a real waste of a protocol. Why would you want to make the sending party wait for a response that only adds delays and has no purpose? Simply send a UDP packet and be done with it. No TCP or DNS overhead. One or two lines of perl.

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rajkumar S wrote on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:56:46 +0530: Is the file format of bayes db available some where? dbm, gdbm ... Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

ixHash / NixSpam downloadable lists

2009-12-18 Thread Marc Patermann
Hi, because of no external DNS resolution provided by my /provider/, i can not use network test in SA and am stuck with local test. :( I thought about work around a lot of time, but most network checks rely on DNS. I can only use HTTP(S) via proxy servers and SMTP via relay servers. So no

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world. Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau, 3 hours later had a contract to put those two

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:56:46 +0530 Rajkumar S rajkum...@asianetindia.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Matt Kettler mkettler...@verizon.net wrote:  As you mentioned, you'd need a custom script  (not wildly complicated for a good perl scripter, but beyond the bounds of someone

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: ixHash / NixSpam downloadable lists

2009-12-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Marc Patermann wrote on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:21:21 +0100: When I try to test with an entry from a today's list, i get no result: (http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php) That's a flaw in that service. I get 127.0.0.2. Isn't the OFD able to provide spam-free mail? Kai -- Kai Schätzl,

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: ixHash / NixSpam downloadable lists

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Marc Patermann wrote: The NixSpam project maintains downloadable lists for ixHash and NixSpam blacklist. http://www.ix.de/nixspam/nixspam.blackmatches http://www.heise.de/ix/nixspam/nixspam.cachematches The easiest way may be to generate local DNS zones for this, isn't it? Does anyone

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M 86. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet.

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll raise the issue again. Does that seem fair? 50_scores.cf:score

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Benny Pedersen wrote: On fre 18 dec 2009 15:57:18 CET, Per Jessen wrote I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the ZX80/1 yet. or even spectrum hacked to run cpm :) I've also got a Newbrain stashed away somewhere, manuals, circuit diagrams an' all. add it to ebay if you want to sell it,

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll raise the issue again. Does that

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Marc Perkel wrote: spam 1.2.3.4 example.com ham 5.6.7.8 example2.com Sending these one line TCP messages if fairly easy. Why use TCP for this? Establishing a connection channel for simple short mesages where a return code is not required introduces pointless overhead. It'd be much

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Jason Haar wrote: Then the third filed is NONE. That's how I do it. But the idea is that any kind of daya can be collectively gathered and distributed. Instead of a TCP channel (which means software), what about using DNS? If the SA clients did RBL lookups that contained the details as

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Per Jessen wrote: DNS lookups are usually tried done with UDP first, Sure, DNS usually uses UDP, but the DNS resolver also waits for an answer, wich is simply a waste of time when the sender doesn't need the answer. Add to this that resolving one address may result in multiple queries

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21 [...] Now, if you want to get me rolling about an incompetent computer company just mention GRiD and their Compass not really a laptop computer. Even the bugs were themselves

rule test repo updates?

2009-12-18 Thread R-Elists
is this older link still working and keeping realtime track of updates? http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/ specifically this link http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/ since i have been watching these devels thanks - rh

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: I got to work for several months as a bench tech for an outfit building the first pair of the then smallest tv cameras in the world. Later I found out that one of those civies was Jacques Cousteau, 3

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to be CP/M 86. I'm

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
R-Elists wrote: as far as museum pieces go, i submit that my first was an Apple 2E if i remember correctly.. BRUN BEERRUN was an interesting game, or something to that effect... ;-) ...and (snore) i also programmed a helicopter to fly across the top and drop a bomb on a space invader

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088 CPU board. At that time, the future in operating systems was going to

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very affordable. I was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I desperately needed one of those. Back in 1981, zx80 was 1980 imho, and had just 1k ram, and 8k rom, fully

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread LuKreme
On Dec 18, 2009, at 7:56, Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? It's already been stayed no changes to 3.2.5 will be made until 3.3 is done, hasn't it?

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Per Jessen
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Fri 18 Dec 2009 07:09:03 PM CET, Per Jessen wrote Completely agree, but the ZX80/1 made computers very, very affordable. I was 15 when I managed to convince my parents that I desperately needed one of those. Back in 1981, zx80 was 1980 imho, and had just 1k ram,

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: rule test repo updates?

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, R-Elists wrote: is this older link still working and keeping realtime track of updates? http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/ Yeah, those links are valid. I just haven't committed anything in a while. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 06:56 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: It is a good thing this issue was raised. It led to appropriate mass check runs. I expect that will lead to saner scoring within the SA framework. If not and it bites me, THEN I'll

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25 On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus system running a dual 8085/8088 CPU board.

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: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread Jason Haar
On 12/19/2009 04:51 AM, Jonas Eckerman wrote: (And if more security is needed the easiest way would be to simple limit access to approved IP addresses.) Except that a token would enable one owner with multiple SA instances on separate networks to come across as one entity - that could be

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Jason Haar wrote: On 12/19/2009 04:51 AM, Jonas Eckerman wrote: (And if more security is needed the easiest way would be to simple limit access to approved IP addresses.) Except that a token would enable one owner with multiple SA instances on separate networks to come

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: It's already been stayed no changes to 3.2.5 will be made until 3.3 is done, hasn't it? Well, at this point, I respectfully bow, and take a step back, so as not to sound too demanding of our great volunteers (smile), but I believe in another of my posts I

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 18 December 2009, jdow wrote: From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 09:25 On Friday 18 December 2009, Per Jessen wrote: hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? My first home computer was a Godbout S-100 bus

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: I recognize, from the existence of such sites as 'rules du jour' that it has long been a practice for SA to release 'core' rule updates very infrequently. But with respect, I question whether that is still a good practice, particularly when an

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? Yes, there is, Mr. Gregory. It exists between your monitor and your keyboard. There is a one inch gap between

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated masschecks, it would be automatically scored and published via sa-update. Music to my ears. I will wait (semi-)patiently.

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: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread jdow
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Sent: Friday, 2009/December/18 13:49 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: Still no changes through the sa-update channel. Is there a time delay in the masscheck results being applied? Yes, there is, Mr. Gregory. It

Re: Dear Santa

2009-12-18 Thread Justin Mason
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 15:31, R-Elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: Axb PS: If JM posts a link to his Amazon wishlist, maybe we can all help him decorate the new place :-) +1 hey, if you all insist ;) http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/1M0UDEXT6A3I7

Re: [sa] Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Warren Togami
On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated masschecks, it would be automatically scored and published via sa-update.

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: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-18 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 18/12/2009 5:13 PM, Warren Togami wrote: On 12/18/2009 04:56 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, John Hardin wrote: We hope to get rule scoring and publication much more automated - i.e., if a rule in the sandbox works well based on the automated masschecks, it would be

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

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