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Critical Eye on SpamAssassin

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-totally-surprising dept.

ErrorBase writes "In this Infoworld article, Logan G. Harbaugh makes a great deal about an ancient (2.44) version of SpamAssassin comparing it with newer comercial variants. Quote : You get what you pay for. [...] However, it took more than 10 times as long to install and configure SpamAssassin as it did any of the other products. " Why did he not ask Kevin Railsback who had the whole thing working some while ago?)"

7 of 324 comments (clear)

  1. FP Assassin !?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When will Slashdot employ this GNAA developed technology ?

  2. SATalk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It has been a fun few days on the mail list for sure.

  3. How to install, the easy way. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    emerge spamassasian.
    1 minute to download
    2 minutes to compile

    and your done in 3 minutes. Another Reason why the world is switching in droves to Gentoo.

  4. Re:Spamass Assin? by JPelorat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stupid fucktard mod - that's how it was typo'd to begin with. Or perhaps it was CmdrCocksucker that can't handle any editing criticism?

    Either way, you idiots are no fun. At all.

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  5. Re:SpamAssassin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or you can just look at the moderation of each post...

  6. Photo of Author by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Find a photo of the author here.

    He looks like Brian Valentine - ugly and bloated.

  7. The algorithm by Mr_Silver · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know that this will probably be modded off topic as it is a little, but I want to adapt the bayes algorithm to recommend television programs from a schedule.

    The idea being that good programmes are classed as, if you like, spam and bad ones aren't. Therefore anything that gets tagged can be considered a programme that might be interesting to the user.

    The problem is that I've not seen a good *basic* description of how the algorithm works (i'll be implementing it in Perl with a view to porting it to other languages). Preferably with some sample values and a step by step guide on how the final score comes out.

    Can anyone point me to a resource? Paul Grahams description is good, but the formula makes no sense and there aren't any examples.

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