Help beautify ugly heuristic code

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:01:36 -0800, Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
 
> I believe you can still do this with only compiling a regex once and
> then performing a few substitutions on the hostname.

That is a interesting idea.  Convert ip matches to fixed patterns, and
*then* match the regex.  I think I would convert hex matches to the same
pattern as decimal (and roman numeral).  How would you handle zero fill?

1.2.3.4	001002003004foo.isp.com

An idea I had last night is to precompile 254 regexes - one for each of
the possible last ip bytes.  However, your idea is cleaner - except, how
would it handle ip bytes that are the same: 1.2.2.2

Mitja has proposed a scoring system reminiscent of SpamAssassin.

This gives me a few things to try.

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