LOL, don't take my post the wrong way. It seriously wasn't towards you. It hit an exposed nerve having to do with something else.
I understand your concerns about hoaxes. I believe they will get treated like the virus rules: http://www.exit0.us/index.php/VirusBounceRules Which may be created in a cf file, but not in RDJ. And certainly with a big HUGE warning label about FPs, bayes DB changes, and possibly ear infections. :) --Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: E. Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:07 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Scoring Hoaxes > > >I am fully aware of the difference between standard SA and SARE >(although I realize my post may have left that open for some >confusion - >my apologies). > >I use and appreciate SARE - the well-developed rule-sets have >saved our >company an awful lot of time sorting through e-mail! > >When a new admin pops up on this list asking for rules, SARE is the >first place we send them - wholeheartedly and unreservedly. > >What concerns me is that a hoax ruleset has some serious drawbacks >(which have already been discussed). It would be a ruleset entirely >unrelated to spam, but rather focused entirely on a user's personal >mail. False positives would be enough of a concern, but even accurate >positives have their problems! > >SARE has the right to include whatever rulesets its creators >choose, and >I would never dream of telling anyone what they could or could not >include in their ruleset list. However, I would hope that as a >community-oriented resource (which does, in fact, rock) SARE would be >responsible about how such a ruleset was provided. > >A newbie with AWL, Bayes auto-learning, and a hoax ruleset will very >soon see his or her e-mail system degenerate into a massive mess. > >I think my main point is this... treating hoaxes as spam is a >bad idea. >An ideal add-on or improvement to SpamAssassin would be to >have some way >to deal with unwanted personal e-mails - but spam is bulk and >hoaxes are >personal. Those two don't mix well. > ></soapbox> :) > >Evan II > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:47 PM >To: 'E. Falk'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Scoring Hoaxes > >I have to make this perfectly clear, and this is not directed >at you E.Falk. > > >SARE rulesets are in no way shape or form part of the >distribution of SA. >They are not standard by that means. They are not required to >be used with >spamassassin. No one has to use SARE rulesets in any way shape >or form with >spamassasin to catch spam. SARE rulesets do not come with a >blessing, seal >of approval, or smiley sticker from the developers of SA. SARE >rules do not >go thru the same testing procedure as those rules included in >an official SA >distro. There is no official connection between SARE and SpamAssassin >distros. > >SARE is just SARE > >With that all said for reasons that are my own,......SARE ROCKS! > >I like the wiki idea. If we get one started, SARE can test it >against our >growing collections of corpa(Corpi, corpora, >corcrappymcmuffin, whatever I >don't care!) against the rules we come up with for hoaxes. >exit0.us sounds >good to me. >
