Chris Thielen wrote:
Hi all,
(I've been watching this thread intently... I hope something very good will come out of it)
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 23:14, Robert Menschel wrote:
Hello Daniel,
Monday, May 3, 2004, 7:30:15 PM, you wrote:
Yes, new rules used to make their way into CVS quickly, but those
rules (at least so far) take months to get into the field, because of
the overhead and other challenges associated with the GA run. SARE
provides a method whereby rules can be tested and then adopted by
systems very quickly.
DQ> I think you're overestimating how much users want to download DQ> unofficial rule sets. ...
Actually, I think I've been /underestimating/ how many systems actually download our unofficial rule sets. SARE started as a small number of
Just a side note: I'm not sure about how many people *want* to download third party rulesets. However, I can tell you how many systems currently have Rules du Jour deployed. Yesterday 1157 unique IP addresses invoked rules_du_jour (although I can't tell you what rulesets they have checked).
I have 25 systems I take care of and all of them use a lot of the custom rules plus the SURBL-URI check plugin.
And just FWIW: I've personally been getting 99% spam caught and just a very few FPs. I get upwards of 3000 message a day just to this one addrress I am using here. I have one other one I use for few other things and it is even getting 98% caught spam and no FPs!
While I don't use Rules_du_jour I have my own custom fetching script.
And since I was the one who originally started this thread I say again, THIS ROCKS! 8*))
-Doc
