Re: developer to maintain actions file

[http://www.users.sourceforge.net/~robert (robert b)]

--- Andreas Oesterhelt <http://www.oesterhelt.org/~oes> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> > > I'll try to clean up and commit my changes ASAP
> > > (which means probably mid
> > > next week) so there is a defined point to start
> > > from.
> >
> > Sounds good.
> 
> If you're still there & interested, I could commit my current changes and
> send you the remaining feedback log (~200 items) on Monday.

Sorry about waiting 'til now to get back to you.  I 
have been trying to catch up on things.

You could send me the feedback log and see if I can 
build some patterns from them.  I assume that I'd do 
this on my local copy only; should I then send you 
the resulting default.action file?

> > Sure.  At some point in the past, I was wondering if
> > this could be automated (i.e., regular expressions
> > could be automatically derived), but after looking
> > around on the web, I found nothing, unfortunately.
> 
> I don't think that it'll ever be possible to automatically derive good
> patterns from sample URLs (not without AI anyway), but I think that
> verification of the patterns could be at least semi-automatic, which is
> why the master AF file format is parseable. When at some point in the
> future we need to expunge outdated patterns, it could be useful to hack up
> something in Perl. Will always require manual verification though -- e.g
> just that an Ebay auction or NYT news article has expired doesn't mean
> that the ad delivery mechanism used to spice auctions/articles with ads
> has also gone away.

OK.

> Best regards,
> --Andreas