On 08/22, Adam Katz wrote: > > this not worth doing? I realize that the potential for collateral > > damage is high, so I don't think it'd be wise to try and publish any > > sort of data for such a plugin, but it seems like the plugin itself > > might be occasionally useful... > > It might be useful, but we'd have to test it to know.
I just wanted to point out we have the infrastructure for testing this, via mass-checks: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck You create the plugin and a blacklist, open a bug to get somebody to add it to trunk (the development branch of spamassassin), it gets run with mass-check, not only collecting stats on its effectiveness, but also calculating an optimal score to use for it. The ASRG (anti-spam research group) may or may not be useful to talk to about new ways to deal with spam. -- "The most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom is: 'I do not know'." - Data, ST:TNG 2x2 Where Silence Has Lease http://www.ChaosReigns.com
