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| If you're curious, [http://taint.org/2007/03/05/134447a.html here is a technical explanation of the algorithm used], and [http://taint.org/2007/08/04/200125a.html here is an examination of their efficiency against our test corpora]. | If you're curious, [[http://taint.org/2007/03/05/134447a.html|here is a technical explanation of the algorithm used]], and [[http://taint.org/2007/08/04/200125a.html|here is an examination of their efficiency against our test corpora]]. |
The "sought" ruleset
Our spamtrap network collects multiple hundreds of megabytes of spam per day. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to feed that directly into a script to automatically extract rules?
This is now possible, and the results are the "sought.cf" ruleset -- an automatically-generated ruleset which seeks good rules directly from the SpamAssassin spamtraps, updated every 4 hours.
Here are instructions on how to use it.
Gory Details
If you're curious, here is a technical explanation of the algorithm used, and here is an examination of their efficiency against our test corpora.