Re: [SAtalk] I LOVE Spamassassin!!! Happy Holidays!

2002-12-19 Thread Rich Wellner
sabat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You know what you primary SA developers should do: make some Amazon > wishlists and give us the info to find them. You mean like this one? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/1G97F2FF1AWCK/ref=wl_s_3/102-7040818-7952124 rw2 --

Re: [SAtalk] Is this a threat? [SA hate mail sent to me]

2002-11-15 Thread Rich Wellner
> While I understand that you have the best intentions, your contribution to > the http://www.spamassassin.org/";>http://www.spamassassin.org/ > > project has gone very wrong. > > Your concept is excellent in theory, but your filtering requirements are > ridiculous! Your service is costing legitim

Re: [SAtalk] C-Panel implementation of SpamAss

2002-11-13 Thread Rich Wellner
Robin Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my limited experience, with hosting companies simply renting a server > they have never seen, from farms such as: > >http://www.rackshack.net > > for USD$100 a month for 400 gigs of transfer, and being so clueless as to > run their own and all the

Re: [SAtalk] Generating Statistics

2002-10-24 Thread Rich Wellner
"Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whew...I hope all that makes sense. Me too, since I'm the original author. ;-) If people are interested in what that graph looks like after running for six months and filtering well over 30K spams you can check: wellner.org/email-scores.png rw2

Re: [SAtalk] Generating Statistics (new graph enclosed)

2002-10-24 Thread Rich Wellner
"Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand now. Well, is there anyway to fix it so that the graph is > actually useful when you reach those kind of numbers? Mine works great and > is very useful, but I probably have a 1/100 of the volume you do. BTW, is > that your personal mai

Re: [SAtalk] corpus submissions

2002-10-22 Thread Rich Wellner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: >> I still think my submissions of spam that isn't flagged by the system is of >> particular usefulness, am I deluding myself? It seems like FP's or FN's >> woul d always be the most useful additions. > > Well, too many and they'll overbalance the corpus [

Re: [SAtalk] corpus submissions

2002-10-21 Thread Rich Wellner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes: > Rich Wellner said: > >> > take a look at "CORPUS_SUBMIT" in the "masses" subdir of the distribution. >> > You'll need to get down'n'dirty with CVS and rsync, but it's well >> >

Re: [SAtalk] RE: Spam Assassin and Free Speech Issues

2002-07-03 Thread Rich Wellner
"Michael Moncur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [redirected to SAtalk per Dan's suggestion] > > Mark Perkel writes: >> Yes - but because a subject isn't generally discussed among most people >> doesn't meen that it's isn't important as a subject to many people. And I >> think that Spam Assassin s

Re: [SAtalk] Viewing auto-whitelist database

2002-04-30 Thread Rich Wellner
Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm kinda interested in looking at what's stored in our AWL. Is there an > easy way to dump it out as something useful? strings auto-whitelist.db Or, if your some sort of a purist, you can use the db_dump util from the berkeley db kit. rw2 __

Re: [SAtalk] Global SA Statistics?

2002-04-17 Thread Rich Wellner
Steve Yuroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does SA keep stats on what it's doing? IE- 73 of the last 100 > messages were flagged as spam, average score=5.3. Processed 300 > messages in the last 24 hours stuff like that. > > How might I go about getting this info from it? It doesn't do thi

Re: [SAtalk] Porn mail deleting for school

2002-04-17 Thread Rich Wellner
"Christopher Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW -- Thanks Rich Wellner, you're a cool guy. See! I *told* you he was reasonable... ;-) It was good talking with you as well Chris. rw2 ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list

Re: [SAtalk] Are there any commercial SpamAssassin proxy services?

2002-04-15 Thread Rich Wellner
"Dan Kohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I nuts in thinking that nearly everyone on the Internet would > like a similar service, and many of them are willing to pay for it? I guess we'll find out soon enough. There are three of these projects underway currently (I'm doing one of them) that I

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Wellner
"Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get some numbers on number of pieces of spam, numbers > of spammers, etc.. Are there any good references I could use? I don't have a lot of data for the general community, but in terms of the mail I receive you can look at: http:/

[SAtalk] A couple perhaps useful codelets

2002-04-09 Thread Rich Wellner
A couple people liked the graph I produced that other day and asked for info, so here it is. In .procmailrc *after SA has touched the mail* I added: -- SPAM_STATUS=`grep X-Spam-Status $i |cut -d' ' -f3|cut -d'=' -f2 |sort -n` MESSAGE_ID=`formail -xMessage-ID:: \ | sed -e 's/[;\`\\]/ /g' \ | expan

Re: [SAtalk] Scores on the Doors

2002-04-04 Thread Rich Wellner
Daniel Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:31:50AM -0600, Casimir Couvillion wrote: > > Highest in March was 43.4. Several 41s behind it. > > Sounds like a challenge! Ok, this one is from yesterday: I can't beat that, but here's everything I've received in the last

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own the mail server ?

2002-04-03 Thread Rich Wellner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sundial Services International, Inc.) writes: > Gentlebeings... you are all on high-speed links and you're thinking > "set up your own POP server..." As though that were no problem. > > And no, it's not that I don't know just how to do just that. But my > particular circumst

Re: [SAtalk] In need of very basic HELP

2002-04-01 Thread Rich Wellner
Sidney Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps you can suggest that Windows end users speak to their ISP > about installing Spamassassin as a service to their customers. You might also consider setting up an email service for $5 a month or so that runs spamassassin. I'd be willing to he

Re: [SAtalk] Can't get it to work

2002-03-26 Thread Rich Wellner
"Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 the voices made Stefan Fredriksson write: > > > | /home/stefan/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c > > /home/stefan/bin/SpamAssassin/rules Just for the record, the doc has it on two lines. So folks who cut and paste end up w

Re: [SAtalk] Can't get it to work

2002-03-26 Thread Rich Wellner
Stefan Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | /home/stefan/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c > /home/stefan/bin/SpamAssassin/rules This needs to be all one line. rw2 ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [SAtalk] New install doesn't put right x header (solution)

2002-03-21 Thread Rich Wellner
Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, the header line you quoted below is a 2.01 header line, not > 2.11 Yup, that's the key. I noticed that when my questioning email came back to me from the list, but didn't take action until you too asserted that it should have the correct version.

Re: [SAtalk] OT: reiserfs (rw2's final word)

2002-03-21 Thread Rich Wellner
Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I won't bother getting too deep into this topic, but it works great > for me. Yes, that's the funny part. It's a hard topic (and an off topic here) to get into. So, I'll just clarify a couple things and then let whoever wants to have the last word

Re: [SAtalk] Proxys, Win32, RFCs and other nonsense...

2002-03-21 Thread Rich Wellner
Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 10:25, dman wrote: > > > Use the 'maildir' format, hope your system has a decent disk cache, > > and use mutt :-). I've got a folder that had 3000+ messages. The > > first time it was opened it would take several seconds to load

[SAtalk] New install doesn't put right x header

2002-03-21 Thread Rich Wellner
I've been using spamassassin for a few weeks now and am ready to install it on my mail server instead of running procmail scripts on the client side. I've been running 2.01 with no difficulty, but now when I put 2.11 on the server things are a little funny. Specifically, the messages are flagged