Hello Sniffer Folks, I will be making a significant upgrade to the Rule Strengths Analysis program today. The upgrade will make the rule strength calculation much more sensitive to the recent activity of any given rule so that if a rule stops showing activity it's rule strength will drop over time... as that time becomes longer the rule strength will drop more radically until the rule is made inactive.
This will also cause rule fitness decisions to be more competitive so that the most effective rules will be more strongly selected over time. If these adjustments have the desired effect then rulebase efficiency will be dramatically increased and rulebase file sizes will drop significantly. This will improve SNFs performance in two ways: 1. Rulebase files will be smaller and will require less bandwidth to download and to load during operation. There will also be a measurable increase in scanning speed (though this is already measured in small numbers of milliseconds on most systems). 2. The smaller, more efficient files can be compiled and delivered more quickly which will allow us to increase the rate at which we deliver updates. YOU DO NOT NEED TO TAKE ANY ACTION :-) All of this work will happen on our end of the Internet. Thanks, _M Pete McNeil (Madscientist) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation Chief SortMonster (www.sortmonster.com) Chief Scientist (www.armresearch.com) This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
