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SpamNet: Razor for the Masses

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isn't-that-cool dept.

UCRowerG writes "From CNET News on Yahoo!: "Conceived by Napster co-founder Jordan Ritter and open-source developer Vipul Ved Prakash, the company is touting the benefits of democracy, networking and collaboration in the war against unscrupulous e-mail marketers." " Since Prakesh is responsible for Razor, hopefully there will be Linux support as well, but once again I gotta throw my props at Spamassassin which catches over a hundred spam for me each day.

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  1. SpamAssassin problems. by flamingcow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) PERL is wonderful for admin scripts, and not too great for systems that have to parse large chunks of mail. It's just not fast enough in an enterprise environment.

    2) DCC doesn't recognize MIME parts or do fuzzy checksumming. The lack of both makes it trivial to make spam/viruses that get around it.

    SpamAssassin wasn't an option for my ISP because of these issues, so I wrote MessageWall to do most of SpamAssassin's work with enterprise-level speed.