DSPAM v3.6 Released

Nuclear Elephant writes "After six months of development, DSPAM v3.6 has been released. The most notable change is the series of new features added to make an anti-spam gateway appliance possible (Knoppix anyone?). Version 3.6 also includes a highly accurate alternative to Bayesian filtering known as Markovian discrimination, based on Bill Yerazunis' research. Other significant enhancements include trusted sender whitelisting, integrated Clam Antivirus and LDAP support, a centralized spam training alias, and a new dependency-free storage driver. Much of the documentation has also been rewritten to make installation easier. A change log and release notes are also available. Slashdot has recently featured a review of the author's book, Ending Spam and an interview as well."

Comments

hiding your address

[Douglas Simmons]

Other than annoying whitelists, there is no anti spam warez that is bulletproofly reliable. The best defense against spam is never to type your personal address anywhere on the internet. Once your address is spotted by a bot, you're screwed and it will only get worse over time.

If you want to give your site's visitors a simple way to contact you without losing your email addess to the spam harvesting "folks" (not to mention without forcing your visitors to fire up a client they probably don't even have configured with a mailto link), just set up a simple form and use simple php to make it convenient for them to reach you while keeping your email address safely tucked away.

Though this is only possibly with PHP, ideally running on a Debian system, it's the most important language to learn in the universe. For a starter's guide, check out this site.