@grumpybozo@toad.socialLOL.
Until last week, the scraperbots were poisoning models with the arcane performance details and masscheck logs of the ASF #SpamAssassin project. 2 decades of data that requires a deep knowledge of SA to make any sense of. It's freely available as a matter of principle. Between thousands of days & hundreds of rules with about a dozen distinct corpora, we poisoned the models wi…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAs a consequence of The Mothership changing its logo, ASF #SpamAssassin is also doing so, with a contest open to all.
We have not yet put together the details for this, but the last time we did this (before I even *used* SA) was 2004 and we did it like this then:
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWe are NOT AMUSED.
If you're hosted by Aceville, you're dead to me.
#Sysadminnery #SpamAssassin #AIBots
![screenshot from the VM used for SpamAssassin RuleQA. It shows the runn of the command 'w' which reveals one logged in user and triple-digit load averages.
Raw Text:
root@sa-vm:/var/log/apache2# w
14:28:18 up 111 days, 8:42, 1 user, load average: 208.31, 203.42, 138.01
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
billcole pts/0 67.149.19.2 14:02 4.00s 7.525 0.22s sshd: billcole [priv]](https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/225/807/536/287/221/original/bfc3701df0c614e2.png)
@grumpybozo@toad.socialHow the open web closes, FOSS edition...
We are running a contest to create a new logo for ASF #SpamAssassin, but because of the steps taken to consolidate wikis for #TheASF and protect the ASF Confluence instance from various malefactors we have yet to figure out how to allow submissions from pe…