Re: Whitelists, not directly useful to spamassassin...

2009-12-17 Thread Per Jessen
Warren Togami wrote: > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6247#c49 > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6247#c51 > It turns out that the ReturnPath and DNSWL whitelists have a > statistically insignificant impact on spamassassin's ability to > determine ham

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Charles Gregory spake: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game... Biggest thrill for me was reverse-egineering the 'fast loader' code in one of the games so that I c

Re: Reminder:: 3.3.0 pre-release cut: December 17th

2009-12-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Warren Togami wrote on Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:12:05 -0500: > All bugs targeted for 3.3.0. When reviewing this list and playing around I found that there are 22 bugs for milestone 3.2.6. Shouldn't these get reviewed and promoted to 3.3.0 if still valid? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get yo

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:20 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > No cpm here, but what was once os-9, now nitros-9 because we changed the cpu > to a hitachi 6309, cmos & smarter, then re-wrote os-9. Both levels. > No CP/M here either, but I have a working Flex 09 relic - MC6809 with parallel connected A

Re: Reminder:: 3.3.0 pre-release cut: December 17th

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Martinec
On Thursday December 17 2009 12:49:25 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > When reviewing this list and playing around I found that there are 22 bugs > for milestone 3.2.6. Shouldn't these get reviewed and promoted to 3.3.0 if > still valid? What usually happens is that a bug was fixed in trunk (3.3), but then (

Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:27 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > > jdow wrote: > > From: "Charles Gregory" > > Sent: Wednesday, 2009/December/16 07:49 > > > > > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > >>> Marc Perkel wrote: > http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml > >>> There was actua

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Greg Troxel
LuKreme writes: > On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: >> So far only 1 person on this list has claimed to have been hit by Spam that >> has been let through by the Habeas rules in SA. > > > I'm the only one? Really? That doesn’t jibe with my memory, but I'm not > scanning the e

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Justin Mason
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 16:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> Marc Perkel wrote: >>> http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. >>> >> >> For your amusement: >> >> I

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/17/2009 2:50 AM, Rajkumar S wrote: Hello, I have 2 SA servers running for a single domain. Both were primed with a set of 200 spam and ham messages are are now auto learning. After about a day both have auto learned different numbers of ham and spam mails. Is it possible to merge the bayes

Re: FP on blacklist hostkarma

2009-12-17 Thread Kevin Golding
In article <4b22a350.1030...@perkel.com>, Marc Perkel writes > >Kevin Golding wrote: > >> bigfootinteractive.com. 3600IN TXT "v=spf1 >> ip4:206.132.3.0/24 ip4:206.132.1.0/24 ip4:216.35.62.0/25 >> ip4:216.33.63.0/24 ip4:209.67.13.128/25 ip4:66.7.58.0/24 -all" >

Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Kevin Golding
In article <64de5c8b0912162232k1482d588y8ebe065f17c45...@mail.gmail.com> , Rajkumar S writes >On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, McDonald, Dan > wrote: > >> I miss my Ohio Scientific C3. I had a Tektrinix 4027 terminal with more ram >> than the computer. > >Just wondering if any one here started of

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
On 12/17/2009 2:50 AM, Rajkumar S wrote: > Hello, > > I have 2 SA servers running for a single domain. Both were primed with > a set of 200 spam and ham messages are are now auto learning. After > about a day both have auto learned different numbers of ham and spam > mails. Is it possible to merge

OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 12/17/09 8:56 AM, Kevin Golding wrote: I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I had an ASR 33 teletype with an Anderson Jacobs 110 baud coupler. We dialed into an 800 number owned by tymenet (an X.25 pad). had to hit the ^p on the keyboard after it stopped scream

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 12/17/09 2:50 AM, Rajkumar S wrote: Hello, I have 2 SA servers running for a single domain. Both were primed with a set of 200 spam and ham messages are are now auto learning. After about a day both have auto learned different numbers of ham and spam mails. Is it possible to merge the bayes d

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Rajkumar S
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: > or, as one posted suggested, use one single mysql database.  its faster and > more stable. Thanks every one, mysql is the way to go. raj

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/17/2009 02:14 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 12/17/09 2:50 AM, Rajkumar S wrote: Hello, I have 2 SA servers running for a single domain. Both were primed with a set of 200 spam and ham messages are are now auto learning. After about a day both have auto learned different numbers of ham a

Re: Site-wide Bayes

2009-12-17 Thread RW
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:36:12 -0500 Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 12/16/09 9:27 AM, Thomas Harold wrote: > > I'm guessing that you'd also want to change the autolearn > > thresholds to be stricter? Like only auto-learning if it scores > > below -2 or above +10? > > > > (That might be an amavisd-n

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:04:18 -0500 Matt Kettler wrote: > No.. If you're using file-based bayes, there's no good way to share > updates between one DB and the other. The information needed to make > such a merger successful isn't stored, because it is not needed for > any reason within SpamAssass

Re: Whitelists, not directly useful to spamassassin...

2009-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
Warren Togami wrote: While whitelists are not directly effective (statistically, when averaged across a large corpus), whitelists are powerful tools in indirect ways including: * Pushing the score beyond the auto-learn threshold for things like Bayes to function without manual intervention

OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Steve Lindemann
I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh those were the days 8^) But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper tape to load programs (after you fingered in the boot) an

Re: Whitelists, not directly useful to spamassassin...

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
Thank you, Warren. That (finally) gives some real perspective to this mess, and gets some of the 'real' questions answered. - C On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Warren Togami wrote: I made a discovery today that surprised even myself. Using the rescore masscheck and weekly masscheck logs while working

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Jason Haar wrote: On 12/17/2009 03:30 PM, Marc Perkel 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

Re: Whitelists, not directly useful to spamassassin...

2009-12-17 Thread Warren Togami
On 12/17/2009 11:27 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote: If whitelists are to be enabled by default, I believe their score should be moved considerably more toward zero. /Jason I don't necessarily disagree with this desire, as now we know the whitelists actually are making almost zero difference to spam

testing spamassassin,sa-learn not work

2009-12-17 Thread Khanh Truong
Hi, I created a sample message, then tell spamassassin to learn it as spam with the command #sa-learn --spam spamtest.txt then I tried the command #spamc < spamtest.txt but spamassassin still scored it as non-spam. Am I doing something wrong? Please help! Here is my spamtest.txt (based on GTUBE

Re: [sa] Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 12/16/2009 6:16 PM, Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > blabber... checkout SVN - follow dev list... HABEAS is history... I believe the *point* here is that HABEAS is NOT 'history' for ordinary systems runnin

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: So far only 1 person on this list has claimed to have been hit by Spam that has been let through by the Habeas rules in SA. I'm the only one? Really? That doesn’t jibe with my memory, but I'm not scanning th

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread hchan
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 decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell me that

Re: testing spamassassin,sa-learn not work

2009-12-17 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Khanh Truong wrote: I created a sample message, then tell spamassassin to learn it as spam with the command #sa-learn --spam spamtest.txt then I tried the command #spamc < spamtest.txt but spamassassin still scored it as non-spam. Am I doing something wrong? Please help!

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk... I wonder if IBM finally phased them out? I still have a couple as souvenirs :) - C

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Steve Lindemann" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 08:30 I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh those were the days 8^) Have one complete with the SASI hard disk. {^_^}

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

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
{side note} Has anyone noticed how the thread 'emailreg.org - tainted white list' has been left unchanged, despite the topic moving on to Habeas. Whilst this is side splittingly funny if you do a search on emailreg.org and see it in the archives, it's probably not fair to drag their name through th

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:06 re: CP/M No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? Processor Technology SOL-PC boosted to a higher speed (had to reengineer timing on the board.) I also added a paddle board with S-100 slots on both sides. I was able to stick 5 S-100 cards into a remar

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk... I wonder if IBM finally phased them out? I still have a couple

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

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Christian Brel" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:28 {side note} Has anyone noticed how the thread 'emailreg.org - tainted white list' has been left unchanged, despite the topic moving on to Habeas. Whilst this is side splittingly funny if you do a search on emailreg.org and see it in

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "John Hardin" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 09:35 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: I decided it was time to upgrade when a computer store clerk was trying to tell me that there was no such thing as an 8" floppy disk...

sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread jidanni
Sometimes sa-update works, sometimes one gets http: GET http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/asf/891585.tar.gz request failed: 403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /sa-update/asf/891585.tar.gz on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (Fedora) Server at daryl.dostech.ca Port 80 I recommend that htt

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Steve Lindemann wrote: I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh those were the days 8^) But my first digital computer (at work) was a Raytheon 703 with paper tape to load programs (after yo

Re: sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 17/12/2009 1:00 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Sometimes sa-update works, sometimes one gets > http: GET http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/asf/891585.tar.gz request failed: > 403 Forbidden: > You don't have permission to access /sa-update/asf/891585.tar.gz on this > server. > Apache/2.2.3 (F

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >re: CP/M > >No S-100 bus systems mentioned yet? Sorry, my omission. The first gizmo I ever built, in 1979, was a Quest Super Elf, which has an expansion connector on its board that allowed an s-100 buss backplane to be plugged into it.

Re: sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread jidanni
OK, thanks. I'd put some contact info on top of http://daryl.dostech.ca/, above "This blog is currently in a static state pending an upgrade of WordPress", in case something breaks next time.

Re: sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 17/12/2009 1:36 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > OK, thanks. I'd put some contact info on top of http://daryl.dostech.ca/, > above "This blog is currently in a static state pending an upgrade > of WordPress", in case something breaks next time. I used to have that and I got about 100 messages a

Re: Whitelists, not directly useful to spamassassin...

2009-12-17 Thread J.D. Falk
Very interesting data indeed -- and a testament to the accuracy of the SpamAssassin rules weighting process. On Dec 16, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Warren Togami wrote: > While whitelists are not directly effective (statistically, when averaged > across a large corpus), whitelists are powerful tools in i

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-17 Thread Jason Haar
On 12/18/2009 05:31 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: > > In this case the idea is to gather data in real time. So those who > gather data need to be able to send the data to a central place that > receives the data and then makes it available to everyone. > You've lost me there - DNS would allow you to do th

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 w

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-17 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: > The fact is I *AM* their customer. The people writing them checks are not, > they're just their funders. Whitelist companies ha to convince admins to use > their list. The only way to do that is to have really really really high > quality lists that

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread J.D. Falk
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 *not* score high. Otherwise what are their > customers paying them for? Return Path is no

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:21:37 -0700 "J.D. Falk" 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 *not* score high. Otherw

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Chris Hoogendyk" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07 Steve Lindemann wrote: I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh those were the days 8^) But my first digital computer (at work

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

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "R-Elists" 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 topic can die. I also

Re: Whitelists in SA

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "J.D. Falk" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 11:21 On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:35 AM, LuKreme wrote: The fact is I *AM* their customer. The people writing them checks are not, they're just their funders. Whitelist companies ha to convince admins to use their list. The only way to do that is

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Ober
hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: 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. You and Jerry Pournelle :-)

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
jdow wrote: From: "Chris Hoogendyk" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07 Steve Lindemann wrote: I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... Kevin I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh those were the days 8^) But my first digital co

Re: sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:48 -0500: > early this morning. BTW, I was already getting this temporarily when trying to run the first sa-update for SA 3.3.0 beta1 a few days ago. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.

Re: sa-update 403 forbidden

2009-12-17 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 17/12/2009 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:28:48 -0500: > >> early this morning. > > BTW, I was already getting this temporarily when trying to run the first > sa-update for SA 3.3.0 beta1 a few days ago. Could you tell me, off-list, the public

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
> -Original Message- > From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] > Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 4:59 p.m. > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list > > On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > > So far only 1 person on this list ha

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: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, jdow wrote: > I still have my K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig. It still works. And it's > still aligned despite it's being bamboo. Ah, you've got the newer cheaper model. I inherited mine from my father (40's vintage) and it has a rosewood core. In my freshman year of college, (

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, jdow wrote: >From: "Chris Hoogendyk" >Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 10:07 > >> Steve Lindemann wrote: > I think I still have a Model B in the loft somewhere... > > Kevin >>> >>> I've seen CP/M mentioned but no mention of the venerable Kaypro! Oh >>> th

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: >>> Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml >>> There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house. >> >> Fo

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Robert Ober wrote: >hc...@mail.ewind.com wrote: >> 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. > >You and Jerry Pournelle :-) Yeah, but Jerry is

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >> >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: > http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was act

Re: Reminder:: 3.3.0 pre-release cut: December 17th

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Martinec
Suggesting to postpone the wrapup date till tomorrow (December 18) to give us one more day to digest the latest changes and see where we stand. Mark

Re: Reminder:: 3.3.0 pre-release cut: December 17th

2009-12-17 Thread Warren Togami
On 12/17/2009 04:24 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: Suggesting to postpone the wrapup date till tomorrow (December 18) to give us one more day to digest the latest changes and see where we stand. Mark Seconded. I guess I'm spinning the rc1 unless jm wants to do it. I'm reluctantly going to call

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >On 17.12.2009 23:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: >>> On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> http://ww

Re: OT: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 16.12.2009 18:15, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house

RE: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread R-Elists
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" and go boom... wow hu

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, 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 >

Re: HTML in Messages

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/16/2009 10:50 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: I had thought that at one time I already set it to text only on this list and I had. But that was before the list name changed many years ago. I'm been on this list since 2001. One of the (many) reasons why I've switched over to having a dedicated e

Re: Site-wide Bayes

2009-12-17 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/17/2009 10:30 AM, RW wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:36:12 -0500 Michael Scheidell wrote: On 12/16/09 9:27 AM, Thomas Harold wrote: I'm guessing that you'd also want to change the autolearn thresholds to be stricter? Like only auto-learning if it scores below -2 or above +10? (That migh

RE: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread R-Elists
> The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live > with was an > 11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows > combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every > piece in that thing except the frame rail with the serial > number and all they managed to do

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
On 12/17/2009 11:17 AM, RW wrote: >> If you're using file-based bayes, there's no good way to share >> > updates between one DB and the other. The information needed to make >> > such a merger successful isn't stored, because it is not needed for >> > any reason within SpamAssassin. The database me

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 December 2009, R-Elists wrote: >> The absolute, without a doubt, biggest POS I ever had to live >> with was an >> 11/23 that had more hdwe bugs than all issues of windows >> combined since DOS5.0. Dec field engineers changed every >> piece in that thing except the frame rail with th

Re: Sharing and merging bayes data?

2009-12-17 Thread Rajkumar S
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Matt Kettler wrote: >  As you mentioned, you'd need a custom script  (not wildly complicated > for a good perl scripter, but beyond the bounds of someone with only > crude scripting skills.) as well as historical copies of each database > from the last merge. Is t

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" 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 > them) 0. Why not de

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Christian Brel
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:03 +1300 "Michael Hutchinson" 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 the delivery of b

Re: Cooperative data gathering project.

2009-12-17 Thread Henrik K
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 08:20:47AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote: > On 12/18/2009 05:31 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > > In this case the idea is to gather data in real time. So those who > > gather data need to be able to send the data to a central place that > > receives the data and then makes it availa

Re: OT Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Gene Heskett" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 21:21 My impression of the (DEC) field engineers knowledge was that it was nil, other than the rote stuff, DEC had taught him. And I suspect Joanne would back me up on that. Those guys couldn't replace a stuck output cuz it had an open

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Christian Brel" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 22:11 On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:51:35 -0500 "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" 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

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread jdow
From: "Christian Brel" Sent: Thursday, 2009/December/17 22:22 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:03 +1300 "Michael Hutchinson" 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

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 sc

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" 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 b

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 wou

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 s