MS/SA and DNS load (really: "relays.visi.com")?

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

I'll echo Chris's comments about the early exit.

Hopefully this will be an optional feature as I use MW to get info on
the score distribution and effectiveness of each rule. If it's bombing
out when it reaches a set threshhold you'll loose these stats (or make
them meaningless).

Hopefully they are doing something sensible like making
(my)_rules_du_jour part of the distribution and including the default
rules as part of the RDJ check.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Steve Swaney wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>Behalf Of Chris Picciotto
>>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:10 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: MS/SA and DNS load (really: "relays.visi.com")?
>>
>>This is *really* good information.
>>
>>Since a dead DNSBL requires SA to timeout, which is a resource drain, you
>>would think that the SA folks would have regular "updates" of some sort to
>>make sure the tests are valid and not failiing. Not version updates to SA,
>>but perhaps test data/scoring updates.
>>
>>Just my thoughts.
>>Chris
>
>
> I picked this up off the web a while back. I was just waiting for the right
> question to fire it off to the list. Thanks for asking the right question
> Chris :)
>
> "At the Las Vegas conference, Apache also revealed that the planned 3.1
> release of its open-source spam filter, SpamAssassin, would focus on speed
> and accuracy. Expected in three to four months, version 3.1 is expected to
> feature faster filtering and quicker updates to rules, which look for
> spam-related patterns in messaging.
>
> Theo Van Dinter, who serves on the Apache management committee for
> SpamAssassin, said rules had to be updated quickly so Apache could stay
> ahead of spammers. "It's an arms race, really," he said.
>
> Also planned for release 3.1 is an "early exit" feature that allows the spam
> engine not to process an e-mail any further once it identifies it as spam."
>
> Sorry but I can't remember which clipping server sent me the quote.
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
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> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>
>
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