[OT] spam filter Was: Re: Urgent Assistance

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From: Dave Thomas dave@pragprog.com
Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: Re: [OT] spam filter Was: Re: Urgent Assistance
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:57:34 +0900

In addition, spammers seem to be getting wise to SpamAssassin: I’m seeing
more and more e-mail get through (both personally and in the mail-news
gateway). I was on the point of reducing the threshold a bit to see if it
made things better. Does anyone have any experience to share here?

I don’t see why we can’t use a ruby based filter here for ruby-talk. I have
used SpamAssassin. I am not sure if its performance can meet the needs of a
high-traffic mail server. If SpamAssassin’s throughput is ok for ruby-talk,
I would say we can try a ruby filter like “bsproc”.

Tks,
Shannon

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I’ll happily use the best tool for the job. Is there a page somewhere
comparing bsproc’s accuracy to SA? And will someone volunteer to train
it?

Cheers

Dave

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On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 04:09 PM, Shannon Fang wrote:

In addition, spammers seem to be getting wise to SpamAssassin: I’m
seeing more and more e-mail get through (both personally and in the
mail-news gateway). I was on the point of reducing the threshold a
bit to see if it made things better. Does anyone have any experience
to share here?

I don’t see why we can’t use a ruby based filter here for ruby-talk. I
have used SpamAssassin. I am not sure if its performance can meet the
needs of a high-traffic mail server. If SpamAssassin’s throughput is
ok for ruby-talk, I would say we can try a ruby filter like “bsproc”.