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DSPAM v3.2 Released
Nuclear Elephant writes "After four months of development DSPAM v3.2 has been released, bringing many new enhancements and filtering technologies. These include distributed computing support, implementation of Bill Yerazunis' Sparse Binary Polynomial Hashing algorithm (from CRM114), and v1.2 of Bayesian Noise Reduction. Other enhancements include SQLite support and many significant performance enhancements for PostgreSQL. DSPAM's official release is next week, but you can download the preview release now. Users of the project have also contributed towards creating a new logo for this release."
I'm sick of spam filters braging about their overall error rate. All of them do OK at getting rid of the bulk of spams and saving the bulk of time.
The real important differentating factor is how many false positives they mistakenly accuse of being spam.
The consequenses of a spam message getting through are minimal - under a seconds of time, on average, to skip them.
The consequenses of a non-spam getting blocked can be huge - loss of a customer - a mom not knowing her kid is in trouble.
I wish the spam filters focused entirely on reporting how few false positives they produce.
Administrators really shoudn't configure their systems to return mail that contains virusses. Most of these are sent from spoofed addresses anyway and don't make it to the system that is actually infected. They just annoy people that are not responsible for the original messaga. And on top it just generates an unnecessary amount of traffic and I really just consider this to be spam.