Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey there guys! This was the crazy idea I was discussing with Doc. I wished > for a realtime form of DB or flat file to be updated continuously on rule > hits. No grepping thru logs or anything. Simply when an email is sent thru > SA, whatever rules hit, increase a counter in a db or flat file for that > rule. Seperate db or flat file for ham and spam. This gives live stats on a > system. No grep'n going on. Just a counter per rule.
That might give you a good hit rate, but it won't give you an accurate S/O number. > This is to be used on some advanced rule writing we want to work on. It also > alows an admin to see what might not be worth keeping around. Allowing them > to remove poor performers and increase system speed. Sort of like http://www.pathname.com/~corpus/DETAILS.new ? The corpora have to be sorted by humans to be accurate and runs need to be synchronized so everyone tests the same rules so runs only happen once a day, which is fast enough. We've been doing this for well over a year and it works great. If only we had more active developers working on rules... Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ and open source consulting
