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SpamAssassin Gets a Promotion

Posted by michael on from the now-more-assassinating-power dept.

darthcamaro writes "The folks at internetnews.com are reporting that the Spam Assassin project has been promoted to a full top level Apache Software Foundation project..the project has been in incubation for a while and it's finally made it through...the article also reveals that Apache is now using Spam Assassin themselves: 'I think spam filtering is now a critical part of the network infrastructure and Spam Assassin is a leader in the area,' said Daniel Quinlan, chairman of the Apache Spam Assassin Project Management Committee."

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  1. Great News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is great news! I have been running SpamAssassin on my box for quite a while, just to filter my own mail. I recently installed it on my mother's Windows 98 box to filter her mail when she checks it with Outlook Express, and she hasn't complained about Spam since. With a bit of tweaking, its been catching 95% with no false positives. Hopefully the SpamAssassin project will keep on getting better :)

  2. Re:what to do with spam after it's id'd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sending an auto-reply on scores between 5 and 10 (or any other range) makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.

    I have a very well known address (which is why I'm posting as an Anonymous Coward :-) that receives many hundreds of messages every day. My mail server deals with about half of the spam I get. Well over half of the rest is autoreply responses from idiots who don't understand that *I* never sent that message in the first place -- the from address was forged by a virus.

    The correct response to spam is to throw it away. Trying to reply to it makes the world worse, not better.