Mailman 3 June 2007 - spambayes-dev

1.1a4
by skip＠pobox.com June 29, 2007

June 29, 2007

I cut a 1.1a4 release this morning. The main new thing is the core_server app. I haven't yet updated the website, but will try to get to that a bit later today. Can someone with Windows please give the zip file a try? I followed Anthony's "rather eat live worms than use Windows" instructions for building a zip file. Skip

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Re: [spambayes-dev] (no subject)
by �� June 27, 2007

June 27, 2007

Продам ЖБИ кольца разных размеров Оптовикам скидки Телефоны в Новосибирске: +79134651001 (383)2129690 ------------------------------------ Mail.Ru - удобно, доступно, надежно! ------------------------------------

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Re: [spambayes-dev] (no subject)
by �� June 27, 2007

June 27, 2007

Продам ЖБИ кольца разных размеров Оптовикам скидки Телефоны в Новосибирске: +79134651001 (383)2129690 ------------------------------------ Mail.Ru - удобно, доступно, надежно! ------------------------------------

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Website updated for 1.1a4
by skip＠pobox.com June 26, 2007

June 26, 2007

I believe the website has been updated to reflect the 1.1a4 source release I cut today. The only sticking point was that I was unable to install the gpg signature files in htdocs/sigs because of group permission problems. I sent a note to Tony (he's the owner of that directory). If someone could add an Outlook installer that would be great. (Even greater would be if I could create an Outlook installer on my Mac, but I suppose that's not going to happen anytime soon. ;-) Skip

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Subversion conversion?
by skip＠pobox.com June 26, 2007

June 26, 2007

Quite sometime ago someone proposed a switch to Subversion. I expressed some concerns as the PSF was going through the switch at the time and the verdict wasn't quite in as far as I was concerned. I've since then gained enough experience with Subversion to no longer be such a Luddite. Should we switch now? After the next alpha release? After the next beta release? Never? Skip

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Outlook 2007 Support?
by Jason Eldridge June 21, 2007

June 21, 2007

Hi there, first I would like to thank you for such a lifesaving product as spambayes - at one point I was getting over 1,000 spam messages a day routed to me via 3 domain names - SpamBayes addressed 95% of the spam correctly - I have just rebuilt my PC and plan to use Office 2007 - your website and faqs do not have any info (that I could locate) on Outlook 2007 support? Please advise and keep up the good work! Jason currently posted to CFB Borden<html><DIV> <P> </P></DIV></html> _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=…

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SpamBayes core_server.py and related bits merged to CVS HEAD
by skip＠pobox.com June 14, 2007

June 14, 2007

I just merged the code for a new application, core_server.py, to the SpamBayes CVS HEAD. When I checked in the changes on HEAD I got a bunch of messages like this: cvs diff: Tag 1.1 refers to a dead (removed) revision in file `core_server.py'. cvs diff: No comparison available. Pass `-N' to `cvs diff'? It looks like the checkin actually worked, but I've never seen that message before. This new application, scripts/core_server.py, is fundamentally the same as the preexisting POP3 proxy, but uses a simple plugin scheme to support different protocol adapters. The only plugin written so far is spambayes/ XMLRPCPlugin.py, which, as you might guess, allows messages to be scored using XML-RPC calls. There are two methods, score and score_mime. The latter is pretty much what we are used to - essentially shoot an email (or email-like) message over the pipe and get a score back. The former method (maybe it should be named score_form) accepts a dictionary representing a form submission, a set of extra tokens generated by the client (such as was the submission from an anonymous user?) and a set of attachments. The last two args can be empty (though because of XML-RPC constraints they can't be optional.) The first application of this is likely to the the new Roundup-based Python tracker. I wrote a simple Roundup auditor for that purpose today. I'll be testing that over the next few days. The second application will likely be MoinMoin. Marian Neagul is doing a Google Summer of Code project on page classification which this might fit into nicely. In theory, an web site can use it though as long as it can speak XML-RPC. BTW, before I merged I created a tag, BEFORE_CORESVR_MERGE. I also created an AFTER_CORESVR_MERGE tag after the big checkin. Can people give the existing applications a whirl to make sure I didn't break anything? For Reimar and Marian (the MoinMoin gurus), I did a very little bit of performance testing. Roundtrip performance on my laptop (Mac PowerBook G4 - 800MHz) with both the server and client running on the same machine ranged anywhere from 10-50 bytes/ms. When I added a large payload (a MIME encoded JPEG file of 9.5MB) performance in terms of bytes/ms shot way up, but as you would imagine overall time did as well. Here are some figures: attachment time bytes/ms size 9587824 30.7 sec 312 975978 3.7 sec 259 114794 0.5 sec 252 28675 0.2 sec 142 Thx, Skip

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Near-twin ham/spam, Train-to-exhaustion, feature ideas
by David Abrahams June 12, 2007

June 12, 2007

When I run the tte script, it always stops after 4 or 5 rounds. If it goes beyond 6 rounds it's a sure sign that I've misclassified something (**). What I do then is run the script with -v and let it show me the messages it's training on. In later runs it's always training one or two messages that are the culprits. I just look for those message IDs in TBird and move them into the right training sets. I do this training automatically on my server, so what I'd like to do is have the script automatically email me a notice identifying problem messages in my training set. Maybe it should even mark them deleted (I use IMAP) and restart the process. Thoughts? (**) Technically speaking, running for 6 or more rounds doesn't necessarily identify a misclassification. Sometimes it identifies a correctly-classified message for which there is an oppositely-classified near-twin. Today, it had some trouble with a "correctly" classified-as-ham Mailman moderation request message containing a piece of spam that I had also received directly and thus classified as spam. So everything was classified "correctly." What prompted me to look at this situation was that lots of ham started falling into my "unsure" folder today. So despite the fact that everything was classified correctly, overall performance was noticeably reduced. I'm tempted to conclude that TTE running for more than 5 rounds just indicates a classification that's bad for performance. I guess my next question is whether this near-twin classification (the difference being that one of the messages was a moderation request) is supposed to work well? I guess if I have some other moderation requests in my spam folder that could really confuse things... hmm, straightened that out and it still didn't finish training speedily. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com

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by Louis Mason June 8, 2007

June 8, 2007

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by Anderson Antony June 5, 2007

June 5, 2007

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