On 20-01-17 19:46, David Jones wrote:
>> From: Kevin Golding <k...@caomhin.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:59 AM
>> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: No rule updates since 1/1/17
>     
>> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:26:01 -0000, Bill Keenan  
>> <developerli...@wjkeenan.org> wrote:
> 
>>> What is the fix needed so /usr/bin/sa-update starts getting updates? I  
>>> too have not received an update from updates.spamassassin.org  
>>> <http://updates.spamassassin.org/> since 1-Jan-17.
>>>
>>> Besides updates.spamassassin.org <http://updates.spamassassin.org/>, 
>>> what other rule sets are commonly used? Hundreds of spam messages are  
>>> getting through with only updates.spamassassin.org  
>>> <http://updates.spamassassin.org/> rules.
> 
>> This seems like a good time to mention  
>> https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck
> 
>> If more people can contribute, even just a small corpora of mail, then  
>> updates will be published more frequently. At the moment a very small  
>> number of people provide data, meaning there is very little margin for  
>> error.
> 
> I would like to help with the nightly masscheck but I don't have the
> resources to manually check ham and spam.  This also gets into the
> grey area of how people define spam.  I also have a very good MTA
> setup with RBLs and DNS checks that block most of the spam before
> it reaches SA in MailScanner.  My SA only has to block a very small
> percentage of my definition of spam so I am not sure how helpful
> my mail filtering platform can be even though it's very accurate.
> 
> Dave
> 

I think I can say the same about my platform, but since this issue keeps
popping up I just applied for an account just to find out if my
contribution could help. I can't speculate so I'm just gonna try if it
helps :)

Kind regards,
        Tom

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