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I haven't yet upgraded to the most recent release, I'm still on the prior beta. I'll probably do that this evening. I tend to wait on upgrades until there has been enough time for bugs to surface unless I am already looking for a fix. I'm sure that the extra verification of the rulebase will help prevent the potential of problems, and I guess this has the possibility of being caused by a bit of corrupted data, though that's probably reaching.
There were no substantive changes from the beta to the production version. Largely just a removal of monitoring code.
Again, regardless if there was a blip, Sniffer still does a wonderful job of tagging lots and lots of E-mail, just not quite as much as the day before.
Last night I was able to adjust the rule strength analysis window back to it's original settings. About 5 days of data were lost - but those days will be recovered quickly. Please let me know if this adjustment improved your conditions.
I've noted that on a number of other lists there seem to be posts about a sudden increase in spam over the past few days. We are definitely seeing this also - approximately a 25% or more increase in new rule additions in the past 4 days:
http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp
Specifically note from about 4 days ago...
Days Ago Adjustments -------- ----------- 0 356 1 508 2 391 3 410 4 410 5 326 6 309 7 371 8 292 9 347 10 309
( 5-10 : 1954/6 -> 325.67, 0-5 : 2075/5 -> 415, 325.67/415 -> 78.47 )
Note that day 0 is not complete. So applying a "fudge factor" 78.4 _looks like_ 75%.
Besides, 92% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway %^b
I think a number of things are combined here... I just want to get a good handle on them and make sure we are doing the best we can.
I've noted, Matt, that your rulebase tuning parameters are set at the defaults. If you would like to adjust these to be more aggressive then please let me know off list (support@). More aggressive settings will keep more rules active in your rulebase at lower strengths and will also allow new rules more time to gain strength before being evaluated. Respectively the current defaults are:
Minimum Rule Strength: 1.0
Grace Period: 5 days.
Adjusting these settings can significantly increase the size of your rulebase file.
Best,
_M
