On 05 September 2002, Tim Peters said:
> Greg Ward is
> currently capturing a stream coming into python.org, and I hope we can get a
> more modern, and cleaner, test set out of that.
Not yet -- still working on the required config changes.  But I have a
cunning plan...
> But if that stream contains
> any private email, it may not be ethically possible to make that available.
It will!  Part of my cunning plan involves something like this:
if folder == "accepted":             # ie. not suspected junk mail
if (len(recipients) == 1 and
recipients[0] in ("guido@python.org", "barry@python.org", ...)):
folder = "personal"
If you (and Guido, Barry, et. al.) prefer, I could change that last
statement to "folder = None", so the mail won't be saved at all.  I
*might* also add a "and sender doesn't look like -bounce-*, -request,
-admin, ..." clause to that if statement.
> Can you think of anyplace to get a large, shareable ham sample apart from a
> public mailing list?  Everyone's eager to share their spam, but spam is so
> much alike in so many ways that's the easy half of the data collection
> problem.
I believe the SpamAssassin maintainers have a scheme whereby the corpus
of non-spam is distributed, ie. several people have bodies of non-spam
that they use for collectively evolving the SA score set.  If that
sounds vague, it matches my level of understanding.
Greg
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Greg Ward <gward@python.net>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
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On 06 September 2002, Anthony Baxter said:
> A snippet, hopefully not enough to trigger the spam-filters.
As an aside: one of the best ways to dodge SpamAssassin is by having an
In-Reply-To header.  Most list traffic should meet this criterion.
Alternately, I can whitelist mail to spambayes@python.org -- that'll
work until spammers get ahold of the list address, which usually seems
to take a few months.
Greg
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