Daniel, Do you hear that dull, constant, rhythmic banking noise in the background?
That is me banging my head against a concrete wall. :) Originally, I presented a SURBL-related question/request to Jeff Chan. The question did not have anything to do with SpamAssassin (other than the fact that SpamAssassin now works with SURBL). Jeff was very nice to me and he forwarded this question to a couple of groups. One of these was the SpamAssassin Developers group. Even though my question had nothing to do with SpamAssassin, I think that Jeff was just thinking that someone in the SpamAssassin Developers group might have something of interest to add.... a very reasonable assumption. Certainly, NO one "owes me" anything and I am very grateful for any and all help that I get. Also, as I said before, any guidance that I receive will help others in the future and will only promote the SURBL. Having said all this, I suspect that you have misunderstood my request and, to be sure, my needs have nothing to do with SpamAssassin. In fact, SpamAssassin-centric answers are absolutely worthless to me at this point. I appreciate you taking the time out to answer this request... but I think that there has been a misunderstanding here. Therefore, please just ignore me unless you have something to share regarding my original question. Daniel, sorry to have taken up your time. I'm sure that you were sincerely trying to help me and I appreciate your kindness. Now, if anyone else has something to add which DOES answer my original question... I'd much appreciate the feedback. Sincerely, Rob McEwen PowerView Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] (478) 475-9032 -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Quinlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Daniel Quinlan; Jeff Chan; SpamAssassin Developers Subject: RE: finding RegEx for extracting URIs Rob McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Still, it seems that this regular expression I mentioned could be of > great use after some of the other "cleanup" you listed is completed. If you want to go with a regular expression based approach, you might want to look at some older SpamAssassin releases before we added the HTML parser (I think that happened in 2.50). > Also, in a greater sense, it would be nice to have a "pseudo-code" step by > step guide for doing this. Sort of a "suggested to do list" for developers > of all types who want to incorporate SURBL into their filtering software. Well, that's a SURBL discussion, not a SpamAssassin one. ;-) Now might be a good time to point out that SpamAssassin, *especially* the forthcoming SpamAssassin 3.0 release is an excellent platform for filtering. SA 3.0 has a plug-in architecture that allows additional methods like SURBL and SPF to easily hook-in. Figuring out stuff like how to do MIME and HTML for adversial targets like spam is very hard and I'm a big believer in not reinventing the wheel, so if you can, I encourage everyone to make use of the SpamAssassin platform in this way. Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/
