Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread Axb

On 12/05/2014 01:15 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:41:13 +0100,
Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:

Axb To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds
Axb to spit *at least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data

150k of what?  Bytes?  Emails?  Tokens?


Sorry, thought this was obvious...

SOUGHT type rule generation extracts txt strings from spams so it means 
+150k spams/day


Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread Axb

On 12/05/2014 02:27 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote:

On 4. dec. 2014 22.42.42 Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:


To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds to
spit *at least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data


So not possible to make it run decentraly ?

This imho another precompiled problem


I normally wouldn't reply to such a msg but

It's possible to run decentraly.
The basic code in SVN - you're welcome to make it your project and spend 
the next year getting it to happen,





Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt



The problem is Roundcube.  It does not insert soft line breaks
as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding.  There's a lot of
MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very 
good web mail interface.  I'm always surprised at how vehemently

people defend it.

Many email clients can be set to automatically wrap received text. 
Including the one I'm using now.  But I don't turn that feature on 
because I want to give the SENDER of the message control over text 
positioning.  I feel that if the sender has laid out their email a 
particular way, they have a reason for it.


ASCII with a fixed font like Courier has always been the standard for 
email, and you can do stuff like this with it:


--   ---   \
| Network router |---| NID |---
--   ---   /

Which is far, far quicker and more efficient than attaching some visio 
drawing that I probably don't have a viewer for loaded on whatever 
system I'm using.  And I won't even get into indentation of code in 
Email messages.


As such, senders who are clever and careful and make use of fixed width 
fonts and ASCII text can do a heck of a lot quicker communicating and 
more understandable than a bunch of HTMLized stuff using a proportional 
spaced font that munges drawings, and destroys indentation, and such 
people have a damn good reason at times to send out text that is soft 
broken at specific places.  So if I turn on Word Wrap like Android does 
I have just succeeded in shooting myself in the foot when I get an email 
from the smart people.  So I assume the sender knows what they are doing 
and do I don't try to second guess them by wrapping their stuff.


If you want to send out email that looks like it's been beaten by an 
ugly stick with weird looking fonts and lines that run on forever and 
ever, with no thought to positioning and making it look readable, as far 
as I'm concerned, that's not a reflection on me, it's a reflection on 
you.  I'm not going to change my config to clean up your email, 
particularly when your the only one doing it, no more than I would waste 
time tucking in the shirt and straightening the tie and shining the 
shoes of a salesguy who showed up to sell me something.


It's also not really my job to explain the concept of the blind leading 
the blind and relate that to the fact that nobody else has ever yadda 
yadda yadda but I'll do it anyway - it wasn't too long ago when the 
vast majority of people thought the world was flat, but that merely 
meant that the vast majority of people were ignorant - just like the 
vast majority of people who have never brought it up to you before are 
just as ignorant of line wrapping.  After all, it is an esoteric subject.


Ted

On 12/4/2014 10:20 PM, Noel Butler wrote:

On 05/12/2014 14:40, Dave Pooser wrote:


On 12/4/14 10:27 PM, Nick Edwardsnick.z.edwa...@gmail.com  
mailto:nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com  wrote:

It's also not wrapping the text at all.

it wraps fine here

Look at the last roundcube post, the one sent at 01:06 GMT. The line of
quoted text runs 273 columns without a linewrap.


What client are you using?

roundcube - wraps

Evolution - wraps

the font size btw is identical to yours on both.

only two I use for this a/c

forwarded that message in question to my private address, and checked it
in android tablet and phone, both wrap.

since no one has ever brought this up with me before, I'm placing this
as not my problem to resolve.



Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

pffft 

I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
along ... 

On 05/12/2014 19:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 

 The problem is Roundcube. It does not insert soft line breaks
 as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding. There's a lot of
 MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very good web 
 mail interface. I'm always surprised at how vehemently
 people defend it.
 

Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Mike Grau
On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
 pffft
 
 I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
 its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
 or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
 factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
 along ...

You're reproducing it for me ... e-mails from you have a hard-to-read
small font here also. Not from anyone else - just you.



Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 05.12.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Mike Grau:

On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote:

pffft

I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
along ...


You're reproducing it for me ... e-mails from you have a hard-to-read
small font here also. Not from anyone else - just you


be careful or you end attacked and blacklisted as we still are because i 
did not accept the personal attack and you have no right to ask 
anybody while playing manner cop


http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435100#435100
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435104
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435162#435162



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Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread John Hardin

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote:


pffft

I see no problem,


!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
htmlbody style=3D'font-size: 10pt'
ppffft/p

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Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread Kris Deugau
Axb wrote:
 On 12/05/2014 01:15 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
 On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:41:13 +0100,
 Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:

 Axb To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds
 Axb to spit *at least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data

 150k of what?  Bytes?  Emails?  Tokens?
 
 Sorry, thought this was obvious...
 
 SOUGHT type rule generation extracts txt strings from spams so it means
 +150k spams/day

It seems to work reasonably well for me with ~2-3K each ham and spam,
and even provides a handful of subrules even with ~225 spam subtype
messages.  (I generate a number of sets of rules with different subtypes
of spam.)

It's probably not nearly as *effective* as it could be with larger
working sets.

-kgd


Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread Axb

On 12/05/2014 05:20 PM, Kris Deugau wrote:

Axb wrote:

On 12/05/2014 01:15 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:41:13 +0100,
Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:

Axb To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds
Axb to spit *at least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data

150k of what?  Bytes?  Emails?  Tokens?


Sorry, thought this was obvious...

SOUGHT type rule generation extracts txt strings from spams so it means
+150k spams/day


It seems to work reasonably well for me with ~2-3K each ham and spam,
and even provides a handful of subrules even with ~225 spam subtype
messages.  (I generate a number of sets of rules with different subtypes
of spam.)

It's probably not nearly as *effective* as it could be with larger
working sets.


Agreed.

... I use about 5-15k from the last 8 hrs (amount varies dramatically) 
per rule gen run *for local* use, but that's hardly representative for 
global coverage.





Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 09:47 -0600, Mike Grau wrote:
 On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
  pffft
  
  I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
  its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
  or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
  factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
  along ...
 
 You're reproducing it for me ... e-mails from you have a hard-to-read
 small font here also. Not from anyone else - just you.
 
I've noticed in the past that supposedly identical fonts are scaled
differently by some programs.

It seems that in this case Evolution doesn't show this behaviour, at
least with example text that has been sent to this list and using fonts
included in Fedora 20 (but who knows what it might do under Fedora 21 if
the fonts change?), so it would be interesting to know if there are any
other combinations of OS+MUA+font that always show it.

Similar comments apply to line wrapping. There are some newsreaders and
MUAs that give the receiving user control over line wrapping. The Pan
newsreader has a 'Wrap lines' toggle while Evolution sometimes leaves
paragraphs that it thinks are preformatted as single long lines, fixed
by highlighting them and clicking 'Formatted' followed by 'Unformatted'
on the Format dropdown menu. 

So, obviously, there *are* newsreaders and MUAs that insist on sending
paragraphs as single very long lines or (1) newsreaders and MUAs would
not have linewrapping controls and (2) I would not know how to deal with
these single line paragraphs. Its also possible that the owners and
operators of the offending programs don't know that this happens because
they never see the paragraph as a single long line because the program
always wraps when it shows you, even when its displaying or printing the
message in raw format. It would be interesting to know what they see if
they look at messages with less, which doesn't wrap lines by default,
without giving their MUA a chance to reformat the message on its way to
being looked at by less.

Martin





text/html rendering (was Re: ancient perl versions)

2014-12-05 Thread David F. Skoll
Since most mail clients that send HTML mail also send a text/plain part with
similar content, my filter looks for messages with the structure:

multipart/alternative
   text/plain
   text/html

and converts that little subtree to just:

text/plain

There is occasionally some loss of information, but it works just
fine 99.9% of the time.  Certainly, it has worked for every
posting on this list.

Regards,

David.


Re: text/html rendering (was Re: ancient perl versions)

2014-12-05 Thread Derek Diget

On Dec 5, 2014 at 11:34 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
=Since most mail clients that send HTML mail also send a text/plain part with
=similar content, my filter looks for messages with the structure:
=
=  multipart/alternative
= text/plain
=   text/html
=
=and converts that little subtree to just:
=
=text/plain
=
=There is occasionally some loss of information, but it works just
=fine 99.9% of the time.  Certainly, it has worked for every
=posting on this list.


Been a long time since I dug into MIME details and MUA display 
formating, but don't forget about format=flowed when it comes to 
Content-Type: Text/Plain and line wrapping.  And/or, 
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable with Content-Type: 
Text/Plain, too.



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Re: Multiple subject headers - most blank

2014-12-05 Thread Gibbs, David

On 12/4/2014 10:22 AM, Gibbs, David wrote:

I've seen a number of spam messages come through with multiple header
lines ... some of them are blank.

Any suggestions for a rule to trap this?


FWIW: here's the rule I came up with ... seems to work adequately.

header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /.*/
tflags __COUNT_SUBJ multiple

meta DMG_MULT_SUBJ (__COUNT_SUBJ  2)
score DMG_MULT_SUBJ 1.0
describe DMG_MULT_SUBJ Message has more than one subject header

Although the __COUNT_SUBJ rule isn't behaving as I would expect it.  If the meta rule 
says  1, and the message only has one subject, the rule is activated.  That's why 
I have it set to  2 instead.

david

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Re: Multiple subject headers - most blank

2014-12-05 Thread John Hardin

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Gibbs, David wrote:


On 12/4/2014 10:22 AM, Gibbs, David wrote:

 I've seen a number of spam messages come through with multiple header
 lines ... some of them are blank.

 Any suggestions for a rule to trap this?


FWIW: here's the rule I came up with ... seems to work adequately.

header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /.*/


You might want to be a little bit more paranoid and explicitly anchor 
that:


  header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /^.*$/

I know .* is greedy and shouldn't overlap on multiple matches, but this 
helps make sure.


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Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread Philip Prindeville

On Dec 4, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 12/04/2014 10:30 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
 Axb wrote:
 It's been more than a month since my first SOUGHT 2.0 msg.
 
 A few have shown interest but as there hasn't been the flood of enthusiasm
 and stuff getting done which I hoped for so I've dropped the idea of getting
 a public autogenerated rule set / sa-update channel going.
 
 Good poke!  And I will leave this to the list to show further
 enthusiasm for the project instead of simply promising time off list.
 
 Bob,
 
 It's not a poke - it's a fact.
 
 To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds to spit *at 
 least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data….

I’d offer, but besides aggressively filtering spam, we also block several 
countries using the GeoIP database on our firewall (so we never even see the 
SMTP connections), and block a couple hundred CIDR blocks and ISPs, so it 
wouldn’t be a representative of what you might receive potentially.






Re: text/html rendering (was Re: ancient perl versions)

2014-12-05 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:15:10 -0500 (EST)
Derek Diget derek.diget+sa-us...@wmich.edu wrote:

 Been a long time since I dug into MIME details and MUA display 
 formating, but don't forget about format=flowed when it comes to 
 Content-Type: Text/Plain and line wrapping.  And/or, 
 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable with Content-Type: 
 Text/Plain, too.

That's no problem.  The original text/plain part is completely
preserved.

Regards,

David.



Re: Multiple subject headers - most blank

2014-12-05 Thread Gibbs, David

On 12/5/2014 11:25 AM, John Hardin wrote:

FWIW: here's the rule I came up with ... seems to work adequately.

header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /.*/


You might want to be a little bit more paranoid and explicitly anchor that:

   header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /^.*$/

I know .* is greedy and shouldn't overlap on multiple matches, but this helps 
make sure.


I tried that originally, but it didn't end up matching.

Oddly, when I put the original rule /.*/ in place, and ran a message with 
multiple subject lines through in debug ... I got the following relevant output:

Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
 The Hottest Smartphones - Details Inside 
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.033 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
The Hottest Smartphones - Details Inside
Dec  5 12:09:52.033 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ == got hit: 
negative match

I'm assuming negative match means that the rule didn't match.

The message in question has 4 subject lines, the first appears to be encoded, 2 
more that are blank, the 4th one is plain text.

Example: http://code.midrange.com/4c731ced97.html

Not sure why the rule is being applied 6 times.

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Re: text/html rendering (was Re: ancient perl versions)

2014-12-05 Thread Derek Diget

On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 at 12:30 -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
=On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 12:15:10 -0500 (EST)
=Derek Diget derek.diget+sa-us...@wmich.edu wrote:
=
= Been a long time since I dug into MIME details and MUA display 
= formating, but don't forget about format=flowed when it comes to 
= Content-Type: Text/Plain and line wrapping.  And/or, 
= Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable with Content-Type: 
= Text/Plain, too.
=
=That's no problem.  The original text/plain part is completely
=preserved.

Correct.  I was bring those up because it comes into play with how the 
text/plain part is displayed with regards to line wrapping.

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Re: Multiple subject headers - most blank

2014-12-05 Thread Joe Quinn

On 12/5/2014 1:19 PM, Gibbs, David wrote:

On 12/5/2014 11:25 AM, John Hardin wrote:

FWIW: here's the rule I came up with ... seems to work adequately.

header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /.*/


You might want to be a little bit more paranoid and explicitly anchor 
that:


   header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /^.*$/

I know .* is greedy and shouldn't overlap on multiple matches, but 
this helps make sure.


I tried that originally, but it didn't end up matching.

Oddly, when I put the original rule /.*/ in place, and ran a message 
with multiple subject lines through in debug ... I got the following 
relevant output:


Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit:  The Hottest Smartphones - Details Inside 
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit: negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit: negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.032 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit: negative match
Dec  5 12:09:52.033 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit: The Hottest Smartphones - Details Inside
Dec  5 12:09:52.033 [2459] dbg: rules: ran header rule __COUNT_SUBJ 
== got hit: negative match


I'm assuming negative match means that the rule didn't match.

The message in question has 4 subject lines, the first appears to be 
encoded, 2 more that are blank, the 4th one is plain text.


Example: http://code.midrange.com/4c731ced97.html

Not sure why the rule is being applied 6 times.

david

It's likely going to have to do with (.*) accepting a zero-width match. 
The regex engine effectively considers every string to have a zero-width 
/thing/ between every character. The first match consumes the whole 
string, leaving the cursor at the end. The next match is that zero-width 
magic at the end of the text. To see this in action, compare these two 
perl lines:


perl -e '$x = abc; while ($x =~ //cg) {print match\n;}' # matches 
the empty spaces before 'a', and after 'a', 'b', and 'c' - 4 matches total
perl -e '$x = abc; while ($x =~ /./cg) {print match\n;}' # matches 
the characters 'a', 'b', and 'c' as you would expect


Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow

Charmingly polite again, eh Ted? Surely you can do better, young man.

{+_+}

On 2014-12-05 01:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:



The problem is Roundcube.  It does not insert soft line breaks
as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding.  There's a lot of
MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very good web
mail interface.  I'm always surprised at how vehemently
people defend it.

Many email clients can be set to automatically wrap received text. Including the
one I'm using now.  But I don't turn that feature on because I want to give the
SENDER of the message control over text positioning.  I feel that if the sender
has laid out their email a particular way, they have a reason for it.

ASCII with a fixed font like Courier has always been the standard for email, and
you can do stuff like this with it:

--   ---   \
| Network router |---| NID |---
--   ---   /

Which is far, far quicker and more efficient than attaching some visio drawing
that I probably don't have a viewer for loaded on whatever system I'm using.
And I won't even get into indentation of code in Email messages.

As such, senders who are clever and careful and make use of fixed width fonts
and ASCII text can do a heck of a lot quicker communicating and more
understandable than a bunch of HTMLized stuff using a proportional spaced font
that munges drawings, and destroys indentation, and such people have a damn good
reason at times to send out text that is soft broken at specific places.  So if
I turn on Word Wrap like Android does I have just succeeded in shooting myself
in the foot when I get an email from the smart people.  So I assume the sender
knows what they are doing and do I don't try to second guess them by wrapping
their stuff.

If you want to send out email that looks like it's been beaten by an ugly stick
with weird looking fonts and lines that run on forever and ever, with no thought
to positioning and making it look readable, as far as I'm concerned, that's not
a reflection on me, it's a reflection on you.  I'm not going to change my config
to clean up your email, particularly when your the only one doing it, no more
than I would waste time tucking in the shirt and straightening the tie and
shining the shoes of a salesguy who showed up to sell me something.

It's also not really my job to explain the concept of the blind leading the
blind and relate that to the fact that nobody else has ever yadda yadda yadda
but I'll do it anyway - it wasn't too long ago when the vast majority of people
thought the world was flat, but that merely meant that the vast majority of
people were ignorant - just like the vast majority of people who have never
brought it up to you before are just as ignorant of line wrapping.  After all,
it is an esoteric subject.

Ted

On 12/4/2014 10:20 PM, Noel Butler wrote:

On 05/12/2014 14:40, Dave Pooser wrote:


On 12/4/14 10:27 PM, Nick Edwardsnick.z.edwa...@gmail.com
mailto:nick.z.edwa...@gmail.com  wrote:

It's also not wrapping the text at all.

it wraps fine here

Look at the last roundcube post, the one sent at 01:06 GMT. The line of
quoted text runs 273 columns without a linewrap.


What client are you using?

roundcube - wraps

Evolution - wraps

the font size btw is identical to yours on both.

only two I use for this a/c

forwarded that message in question to my private address, and checked it
in android tablet and phone, both wrap.

since no one has ever brought this up with me before, I'm placing this
as not my problem to resolve.





Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow
Ted was remarkably impolite the way he phrased it. BUT, I will say as a 
practical matter microprint emails do get rather short shrift from me when 
scanning through message threads. I seldom dig in here of late. But I do scan 
through the messages which look interesting and sometimes offer such advice as I 
can. (Usually on topics a simple Google search doesn't help with.) I'm sure my 
advice would be equivalent to much other advice you might get from people whose 
eyes are better than mine. And mine are far better than most of my 
contemporaries and some of my former co-workers at the time. But, on the very 
small chance that advice from me or someone with worse vision than even me might 
help, it might be a good idea to send emails that are more readable.


I am sure I am not the only person here who would appreciate it.

Thanks

{^_^}

On 2014-12-05 07:38, Noel Butler wrote:

pffft

I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then its
nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font or whatever,
your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care factor about changing
things when i cant reproduce it. time to move along ...

On 05/12/2014 19:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:


The problem is Roundcube.  It does not insert soft line breaks
as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding.  There's a lot of
MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very good web 
mail interface.  I'm always surprised at how vehemently
people defend it.


Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow

On 2014-12-05 07:56, Reindl Harald wrote:


Am 05.12.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Mike Grau:

On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote:

pffft

I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
along ...


You're reproducing it for me ... e-mails from you have a hard-to-read
small font here also. Not from anyone else - just you


be careful or you end attacked and blacklisted as we still are because i did not
accept the personal attack and you have no right to ask anybody while playing
manner cop

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435100#435100
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435104
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435162#435162


Personally I'd blacklist the charming Mr. Ted Mittlestaedt, first. Until 
provoked Noel has been quite polite. I do respect that.


{o.o}


Re: SOUGHT 2.0

2014-12-05 Thread jdow

On 2014-12-05 08:28, Axb wrote:

On 12/05/2014 05:20 PM, Kris Deugau wrote:

Axb wrote:

On 12/05/2014 01:15 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:41:13 +0100,
Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote:

Axb To be able to create usable rules, several times/day I need feeds
Axb to spit *at least* +150k/day. As I don't have the data

150k of what?  Bytes?  Emails?  Tokens?


Sorry, thought this was obvious...

SOUGHT type rule generation extracts txt strings from spams so it means
+150k spams/day


It seems to work reasonably well for me with ~2-3K each ham and spam,
and even provides a handful of subrules even with ~225 spam subtype
messages.  (I generate a number of sets of rules with different subtypes
of spam.)

It's probably not nearly as *effective* as it could be with larger
working sets.


Agreed.

... I use about 5-15k from the last 8 hrs (amount varies dramatically) per rule
gen run *for local* use, but that's hardly representative for global coverage.


Add LKML to your large batch of training email and I bet you get interesting 
results, at best.


And one must always remember that one person's spam is another person's ham.

{o.o}


Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow

On 2014-12-05 12:32, jdow wrote:

On 2014-12-05 07:56, Reindl Harald wrote:


Am 05.12.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Mike Grau:

On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote:

pffft

I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then
its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font
or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care
factor about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move
along ...


You're reproducing it for me ... e-mails from you have a hard-to-read
small font here also. Not from anyone else - just you


be careful or you end attacked and blacklisted as we still are because i did not
accept the personal attack and you have no right to ask anybody while playing
manner cop

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435100#435100
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435104
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435162#435162


Personally I'd blacklist the charming Mr. Ted Mittlestaedt, first. Until
provoked Noel has been quite polite. I do respect that.


s/Mittlestaedt/Mittelstaedt/The spello was unintentional. {o.o}


{o.o}



Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Benny Pedersen

John Hardin skrev den 2014-12-05 17:03:

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote:



!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
htmlbody style=3D'font-size: 10pt'
ppffft/p


turn html off is hard, admit its time for santa so possible write some 
hearts with red colors, kids garden :)


RBL and TTL

2014-12-05 Thread Reindl Harald


Am 26.11.2014 um 15:07 schrieb David F. Skoll:

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:10:04 +0100
Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:


the unbound stats on our inbound MX saying the opposite


How much of those are DNSBL lookups against DNSBLs with short TTLs?


looks like i realize the cause of your completly different expierience

* by default postscreen does RBL caching
  postconf -d postscreen_dnsbl_ttl
  postscreen_dnsbl_ttl = 1h
  postconf -n postscreen_dnsbl_ttl
  postscreen_dnsbl_ttl = 5m

* unbound supports min and max TTL
  cache-min-ttl: 270
  cache-max-ttl: 3600

well, i lowered the default 1 hour postscreen caching to 5 minutes 
because 1 hour feels too high given that a NXDOMAIN is also cached


i was even not aware that RBL's use *that* low TTLs of a few seconds to 
zero, but from my expierience around 5 minutes caching are for 99% of 
all cases accurate enough and the idea was more to keep things fast at 
high load


on the other hand the 3600 seconds max-ttl on the inbound MX (with it's 
own recursing caching nameserver forwarding some mirrored zones to a 
rbldnsd on 127.0.0.1:1053) is intented to get fixed DNS errors of the 
sending domain (PTR fixes after rejects and so on) earlier instead 
penalty them for 24 hours in the worst case


that this helps to not exceed RBL limits is a unintentional side-effect 
of other optimizings and considerations while i would *highly* recommend 
such settings - faced days with 50 spam attempts and in that case 
fire up multiple dns queries to the WAN all the time is not funny :-)







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Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

On 06/12/2014 01:56, Reindl Harald wrote: 

 Am 05.12.2014 um 16:47 schrieb Mike Grau:
 On 12/05/2014 09:38 AM, Noel Butler wrote: pffft I see no problem, as like 
 most developers if you cant reproduce it, then its nothing to bother about, 
 after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font or whatever, your pissing up the 
 wrong tree if you think I have a care factor about changing things when i 
 cant reproduce it. time to move along ... You're reproducing it for me ... 
 e-mails from you have a hard-to-read small font here also. Not from anyone 
 else - just you

be careful or you end attacked and blacklisted as we still are because i
did not accept the personal attack and you have no right to ask
anybody while playing manner cop

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435100#435100 [1]
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435104 [2]
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435162#435162 [3]

nope, only highly abusive blackmailers like you end up listed on RBL's 

as someone else recently posted, it doesnt take long on google to show
what your true colours are and see the harsh words I spoke that you
exampled in those linked threads, are truly just deserved, and if by any
chance you have any mates who think I went too far, so be it, it doesnt
bother me, told you that before, obviously I need to tell you again. 

what happens next harry is your own doing, you brought this up, remember
that, so now all consequences are your own, and for the record as I
said, I dont regret one single word I said to you in that post, it
doesnt phase me in the least that you have retransmitted it, because
those that know you, or have come across you, know you deserved it. 

 

Links:
--
[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435100#435100
[2] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435104
[3] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/435162#435162


Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

Ted is always impolite, but he's right that the current roundcube editor
is shocking, in many ways (but not teh way mentioned here) and a few
people have brought this up, I understand my gripes are fixed, I'll soon
know in a week or two. It is rare that I post in here anyway, I've
posted more in past couple days than most of the last 10 years combined
:) 

BTW RC now tells me this is 12pt, yet looks no bigger than before. 

On 06/12/2014 06:29, jdow wrote: 

 Ted was remarkably impolite the way he phrased it. BUT, I will say as a 
 practical matter microprint emails do get rather short shrift from me when 
 scanning through message threads. I seldom dig in here of late. But I do scan 
 through the messages which look interesting and sometimes offer such advice 
 as I can. (Usually on topics a simple Google search doesn't help with.) I'm 
 sure my advice would be equivalent to much other advice you might get from 
 people whose eyes are better than mine. And mine are far better than most of 
 my contemporaries and some of my former co-workers at the time. But, on the 
 very small chance that advice from me or someone with worse vision than even 
 me might help, it might be a good idea to send emails that are more readable.
 
 I am sure I am not the only person here who would appreciate it.
 
 Thanks
 
 {^_^}
 
 On 2014-12-05 07:38, Noel Butler wrote:
 pffft I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, 
 then its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font 
 or whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care factor 
 about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move along ... On 
 05/12/2014 19:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The problem is Roundcube. It does 
 not insert soft line breaks as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding. 
 There's a lot of MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just 
 not a very good web mail interface. I'm always surprised at how vehemently 
 people defend it.

 

Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

Since this appears recent, I wonder if its a rc 1.0.3 issue.. 

again, manually setting to this 12pt, yet looks same as what people see
as 10pt 

On 06/12/2014 02:03, John Hardin wrote: 

 On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote:
 
 pffft I see no problem,
 
 !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
 htmlbody style=3D'font-size: 10pt'
 ppffft/p

 

Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow
Hm, it renders much more readable. I normally default reading to about 12 to 14 
point fonts. The 10 point was getting down to a size that some letters were 
becoming ambiguous, which seriously slows down reading.


Thanks for trying.

As a side note I see that the plain text of mine you quoted is rendered as about 
14. That's a not unusual mutation for MUAs it seems. There is no font size 
declaration so it may be a result of some of the things I did to T'bird trying 
to see if I could tame stuff. The humor this look revealed is that yuor messages 
is font-size: x-large;. And about 12pt is what T'bird classifies as x-large it 
appears. Most humorous.


I hope you have a good one.

{^_^}

On 2014-12-05 19:04, Noel Butler wrote:



Ted is always impolite, but he's right that the current roundcube editor
is shocking, in many ways (but not teh way mentioned here) and a few
people have brought this up, I understand my gripes are fixed, I'll soon
know in a week or two. It is rare that I post in here anyway, I've
posted more in past couple days than most of the last 10 years combined
:)

BTW RC now tells me this is 12pt, yet looks no bigger than before.

On 06/12/2014 06:29, jdow wrote:


Ted was remarkably impolite the way he phrased it. BUT, I will say as a 
practical matter microprint emails do get rather short shrift from me when 
scanning through message threads. I seldom dig in here of late. But I do scan 
through the messages which look interesting and sometimes offer such advice as 
I can. (Usually on topics a simple Google search doesn't help with.) I'm sure 
my advice would be equivalent to much other advice you might get from people 
whose eyes are better than mine. And mine are far better than most of my 
contemporaries and some of my former co-workers at the time. But, on the very 
small chance that advice from me or someone with worse vision than even me 
might help, it might be a good idea to send emails that are more readable.

I am sure I am not the only person here who would appreciate it.

Thanks

{^_^}

On 2014-12-05 07:38, Noel Butler wrote:
pffft I see no problem, as like most developers if you cant reproduce it, then 
its nothing to bother about, after all this time 2 ppl dont like a font or 
whatever, your pissing up the wrong tree if you think I have a care factor 
about changing things when i cant reproduce it. time to move along ... On 
05/12/2014 19:46, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The problem is Roundcube. It does not 
insert soft line breaks as per the MIME Quoted-Printable encoding. There's a 
lot of MIME stuff that Roundcube doesn't do very well, it's just not a very 
good web mail interface. I'm always surprised at how vehemently people defend 
it.






Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread jdow
I'll break it down - it may be a little smaller in appearance. It's on the edge. 
The prior settings worked nicer.


This one declares a body style='font-size: 10pt'. Then for each paragraph it 
declares span style=3Dfont-size: small;.


It sounds like Roundfile or whatever it was (can't remember - don't want to - 
web mail is an abomination - I am THAT old) and T'bird combined have some really 
peculiar rendering notions.


{o.o}

On 2014-12-05 19:07, Noel Butler wrote:



Since this appears recent, I wonder if its a rc 1.0.3 issue..

again, manually setting to this 12pt, yet looks same as what people see
as 10pt

On 06/12/2014 02:03, John Hardin wrote:


On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote:


pffft I see no problem,


!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN
htmlbody style=3D'font-size: 10pt'
ppffft/p






Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

No problems Jo, I might give its svn version a go, but as its the
weekend I'm about to jet off for a couple days, will try it monday, and
12pt as large? LOL, maybe thats why RC defaults to 10pt as average :) 

Cheers 

On 06/12/2014 13:21, jdow wrote: 

 Hm, it renders much more readable. I normally default reading to about 12 to 
 14 point fonts. The 10 point was getting down to a size that some letters 
 were becoming ambiguous, which seriously slows down reading.
 
 Thanks for trying.
 
 As a side note I see that the plain text of mine you quoted is rendered as 
 about 14. That's a not unusual mutation for MUAs it seems. There is no font 
 size declaration so it may be a result of some of the things I did to T'bird 
 trying to see if I could tame stuff. The humor this look revealed is that 
 yuor messages is font-size: x-large;. And about 12pt is what T'bird 
 classifies as x-large it appears. Most humorous.
 
 I hope you have a good one.
 

Re: ancient perl versions

2014-12-05 Thread Noel Butler
 

Yeah, this is a few nibblies with this current version, how it made it
past beta I'll never know 

On 06/12/2014 13:28, jdow wrote: 

 I'll break it down - it may be a little smaller in appearance. It's on the 
 edge. The prior settings worked nicer.
 
 This one declares a body style='font-size: 10pt'. Then for each paragraph it 
 declares span style=3Dfont-size: small;.
 
 It sounds like Roundfile or whatever it was (can't remember - don't want to - 
 web mail is an abomination - I am THAT old) and T'bird combined have some 
 really peculiar rendering notions.
 
 {o.o}
 
 On 2014-12-05 19:07, Noel Butler wrote:
 Since this appears recent, I wonder if its a rc 1.0.3 issue.. again, manually 
 setting to this 12pt, yet looks same as what people see as 10pt On 06/12/2014 
 02:03, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Noel Butler wrote: pffft I see 
 no problem, !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN 
 htmlbody style=3D'font-size: 10pt' ppffft/p