article on blocking by subnets

[Graham Wilson]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:51:05PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> At 07:41 PM 12/2/02, Barry Gould wrote:
> >At 04:36 PM 12/2/2002, David Relson wrote:
> >>The scoring algorithms used by bogofilter look at _all_ the tokens
> >>parsed from the message.  The algorithms give them all comparable
> >>importance.  Let's assume that a particular subnet came to be
> >>recognized as 100% spam.  When that subnet was seen, the token would
> >>be a single max-spam factor in the overall calculation.  Every token
> >>contributes to the score, but no individual token contributes a lot.
> >>
> >>Let me cast my vote in the "minimal effect" group.
> >
> >I know it would still be just one token, but I think it might be
> >helpful.
> 
> Have you the expertise to write the code?  Would you care to?

it wouldnt be to difficult, right? for an ip address 207.46.134.190 in
the message, the lexer would return tokens:

207
207.46
207.46.134
207.46.134.190

(the lexer now just returns the whole ip address, right?)

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