On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:07:52AM -0400, Jared Hall wrote: > > 1) The module, if installed and using the config file as is, does no harm at > all. It will merely generate rules based upon what it finds. These are all > scored at the low rate of 0.01. It's up to the user to decide what to with > them. They can wrap up a generated rule in a meta rule. Example: > > meta JR_HATES_BEENTHERE (JR_X_BEENTHERE) > score JR_HATES_BEENTHERE 8.0
While I guess it's not illegal to whip up rules on the fly, it's awkward and inflexible for the users. > 2C) The initial release of CHAOS.pm did all kinds of scoring. One of the > knocks I have about SpamAssassin is that is does not maintain counts of hits. > My complaints about this go all the way back to 2010. Counts and Amounts. SA > is great with Amounts. It sucks with Counts. To the SA Development crew's > credit, somewhere along the way, tflags were added to allow that functionality > in a very primitive fashion. Many people are happy with that. I'm just not > one of them. > ... > I read somewhere, while looking at META rules that SA internally builds an > array of the rules hit. That way, as rules hit, METAs are then appropriately > updated. Gee, an array. Maybe we could add a count to that array if the user > wishes to? I think that it is a lot of development; not so much the actual > process of doing it, but updating all the User handling thereof. Alas, It is > what it is *SIGH* There's zero actual information here. What exactly are you finding hard to "count"?
