Re: Change in spamd logging behavior on connection close

[jared r r spiegel <jrrs_(_at_)_ice-nine_(_dot_)_org>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:06:13AM +0000, Paul Pruett wrote:

> mirroring the diffs locally or something to not put a strain
> on okean and other servers providing the files...
> (that would be so cool - but maybe not feasible.)

  i started doing that to the SBL.cidr once i noticed something
  akin to what is mentioned below ::

> Try pointing to it in /etc/spamd.conf and to use it with 
> /usr/libexec/spamd-setup  and spamd-setup just runs forever it seems,
> I did a cntrl-c and gave up,

  i also initially thought: "hmm, takes forever, sux, what's wrong?",
  but eventually it ran thru OK.

  makes me wonder if this is where you start thinking about
  the borderline between featurebloat and using your tools --
  as in, using things in your daily.local or weekly.local to 
  pull down the .cidr ( or whatever ) files and changing spamd.conf
  to use a file method and not http method; versus introducing
  new feature into spamd/spamd-setup where it has mirroring
  capabilities, or timestamp checking or something so it doesn't
  re-fetch the http files listed in all:\ declaration..

  tho regardless of daily.local anything, diffs might be
  nice, rather than fetching the whole file each time ( multiplied
  by however many hundred/thousand of us are using spamd ).

  the magical theoretical diffs could either be server-side,
  if the owner(s) or site(s) such as the okean one fancied to
  put up diffs in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage; or 
  we could have a quasi-official mirror of the sites which
  would provide the diffs -- ... ahhhh...  i could perhaps do
  it, depending on if the guy who runs our abuse department
  has no problem with me serving it up off my residential
  adsl link; but also i don't have 100% uptime and perhaps
  the community would not appreciate me randomly screwing with 
  pf.conf on the machine i'm supposed to be keeping up... 

-- 

[ openbsd 3.4-beta GENERIC ( aug 24 ) // i386 ]