It's pretty much for low volumne usage in the under 5000 emails a day range. It uses SA in serial mode (ie, each mail launched a new copy of perl running SpamAssassin) rather then using SpamC/SpamD. Does some interesting things with logging, archiving, size filtering etc.
I should probably re-write it for SpamC/SpamD stuff, but I haven't had the email volume, and SpamD only works on the CygWin perl, not ActiveState perl. I don't want to run a unix box at home just for SpamAssassin, although with Virtual Server being free, I could probably just run a 128k Unix VM running SpamD...
Anyway, it's free, source is available, and it works.
We're talking Exchange here. Corporate world. Where 99.9% of the browsers are IE, and the corporations have the ability to disallow anything but IE.
Other then the AntiTrust isssues:-) (which are iffy here since Exchange is a non-OS application), what's wrong with MS making their product look better on their own browser and worse on the competitors.
And remember, this is Exchange 2003, released October of 2003. Firefox 0.10 was released September *2004*.
Reading their Sender Qualifications indicates you European emailers are pretty much screwed:
Accreditation Criteria In order to meet the strict qualifying criteria, an organization must, among other things:
- have at least 1 year of business history, as verified by a commercial identity verification service - ***have business headquarters located in the United States or Canada ***
Bit of history - Apple (music) has filed several lawsuits to keep Apple (computers) out of the music business. I think I recall Apple (computers) purposely making the music capabilities of the early Macs less then optimal to keep up the ruse of the difference.
I'm sure there was some sort of settlement around 5-7 years ago with apple's push on the iPod and iTunes.
Yes, names can superseed trademarks. I can name my company Lewis, even though Lewis is used frequently, and may even be trademarked. However, if LewisSoft was trademarked, I have *no* rights to it, unless my name was *actually* Lewissoft.
Come on, if the web site was MikeRowe.com, no big deal. He's playing on the fact that his name plus "soft" sounds like Microsoft.
But when you can see the spam slowly but surely get less and less hits (such has malformed HTML mail, blatent screw ups such as $SUBJECT) on some of the lesser scoring rules, you can deduce that the spammers (or the spam program writers) are getting smarter.
A great example are all those junk filler paragraphs that the spammers use to fight Bayes.
It's just an arms race. SpamAssassin gets better, then the spammers adjust.
Part of the problem with open source spam filters, the Bad Guys can reverse engineer what's currently being tested.
I kinda wish that the SpamAssassin group would separate their tests from their product development, so we could get more frequent update of the "offical" spam assassin filters. However, I remember reading somewhere that testing and evalutating any new rules against their current corpus takes quite a long time.
OK, I'm a WinXP user, SP2, pop-ups turned completely off, run SpyBot, AdAware and look at my BHO's at least once a week because I don't trust computer programs, even though/because I write them for a living...
Installed it, read the instructions and FAQ (I know, I'm not supposed to do that:-), and have a couple of first impressions. I'm going to apply the "Mother Test" to the tool bar to evaluate it's usefullnes.
The tool bar installs with initally two items, Netcraft, and Services. Services is simply a drop down with links to all of Netcrafts services, trying to drum up business. I initally thought that services would hot link to some of the Netcraft tools like uptime and what is that site running, but no, just links to the main pages for them. There are 7 main items under serives, and 19 sub-items. Offerings are impressive, but I don't think my mother would care at all about Hosting Providers or Web site auditing.
I can't evaluate the pop-up blocker since I have pop-ups completely turned off via XP SP2. I also run the Google toolbar, so pop-ups haven't bothered me in quite some time (except those occational ones that sneak through when you hold down the ctrl key to click a pop-up link. Who ever thought of using the same key to allow all pop-ups and allow one pop-up should be shot.)
As for the phishing, looks like it will work fine. The toolbar will have to pull down a new definitions file every couple of hours (2 by default), but that should be fine. Reporting a site is relatively easy. This is a thumbs up for the Mother Test
The Stats that it displays are pretty worthless. Pretty flags, but other than that, who cares. Rank is meaningless unless they get rid of their own sites. Pretty obvious that the most visited site is http://toolbar.netcraft.com.
The thing that most disturbs me are the stats that are gathered: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites *Without*any*privacy*statement*, I have no idea what they are doing with my browsing information. This certainly scares me enough to uninstall this sucker. I understand that privacy is going away, I just like to fight it tooth and nail. (Except google, their cool. Until their IPO. oh wait...:-)
Oh yea. Regarding my subject: look at line 12 of the stats: Rank Site First Seen Netblock Site Report Country 12 http://banners.netcraft.com June 2003 Netcraft Go UK
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> now all they need to do is create something to supply the 900KW it would take to charge it.
It takes 900KW to charge the Slashdot Dupe Engine?
Wget -R ???
Kind of self promoting:
s in.htm contains information to run SpamAssassin as an Exchange SMTP Sink.
http://www.christopherlewis.com/ExchangeSpamAssas
It's pretty much for low volumne usage in the under 5000 emails a day range. It uses SA in serial mode (ie, each mail launched a new copy of perl running SpamAssassin) rather then using SpamC/SpamD. Does some interesting things with logging, archiving, size filtering etc.
I should probably re-write it for SpamC/SpamD stuff, but I haven't had the email volume, and SpamD only works on the CygWin perl, not ActiveState perl. I don't want to run a unix box at home just for SpamAssassin, although with Virtual Server being free, I could probably just run a 128k Unix VM running SpamD...
Anyway, it's free, source is available, and it works.
They use it all the time on 24.
Ever hear of browser detection?
:-) (which are iffy here since Exchange is a non-OS application), what's wrong with MS making their product look better on their own browser and worse on the competitors.
if (Browser == IE) {
ShowUltraCoolRendering
} else {
ShowCrappyRendering
}
We're talking Exchange here. Corporate world. Where 99.9% of the browsers are IE, and the corporations have the ability to disallow anything but IE.
Other then the AntiTrust isssues
And remember, this is Exchange 2003, released October of 2003. Firefox 0.10 was released September *2004*.
Outlook Web Access is not ActiveX based. It's AJAX based, but was created long before the AJAX acronym was created.
Maybe a conspiracy against MSDN's Channel 9 ...
I read the article (really, I did!) and it mostly talked about the new remote and how cool a 6 button remote is.
Kind of neat, but what about channels with 7 8 9 and 0?
Reading their Sender Qualifications indicates you European emailers are pretty much screwed:
Accreditation Criteria
In order to meet the strict qualifying criteria, an organization must, among other things:
- have at least 1 year of business history, as verified by a commercial identity verification service
- ***have business headquarters located in the United States or Canada ***
etc...
You install X on production servers :-)
It's interesting that the history of this article goes back to 9/2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Sei genthaler_Sr.&action=history&limit=50&offset=20051 201030737 but the last entry is the one that removes the controversial information, which is what you'd like to read...
You can tell how often I drink soda :-)
INAL, but it's not, to my knowledge a *crime* to violate a trademark.
:-)
A civil offense, with money being at stake via a lawsuit.
But not arrest you and send you to jail.
(unless, of course, you loose the suit, fail to pay, then start talking Bill Gates. But that's a different crime
Great example.
:-)
Bit of history - Apple (music) has filed several lawsuits to keep Apple (computers) out of the music business. I think I recall Apple (computers) purposely making the music capabilities of the early Macs less then optimal to keep up the ruse of the difference.
I'm sure there was some sort of settlement around 5-7 years ago with apple's push on the iPod and iTunes.
I'm just too lazy to google/wikipedia for you
http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/trade marks/en-us.mspx
Was his name Mike Rowe, or Mike Rowesoft?
Yes, names can superseed trademarks. I can name my company Lewis, even though Lewis is used frequently, and may even be trademarked. However, if LewisSoft was trademarked, I have *no* rights to it, unless my name was *actually* Lewissoft.
Come on, if the web site was MikeRowe.com, no big deal. He's playing on the fact that his name plus "soft" sounds like Microsoft.
A trademark is a trademark. If you're violating it, you don't get to ask the owner what they're going to use it for...
I wonder if anyone had a Coke One® website before Coke make Coke One...
Make sure you have an acurate time source, like your GPS :-)
Crap. I always thought A.C.I.D. was what you wanted your database to be about :-)
And in a couple of years you throw it out to get a real piece of furniture?
And from Chicago.
Our motto: Vote Early! Vote Often!
Dude, do you even run the program?
Yes, Bayes helps.
Yes, SURBL helps.
But when you can see the spam slowly but surely get less and less hits (such has malformed HTML mail, blatent screw ups such as $SUBJECT) on some of the lesser scoring rules, you can deduce that the spammers (or the spam program writers) are getting smarter.
A great example are all those junk filler paragraphs that the spammers use to fight Bayes.
They are not giving up, but neither are we!
It's just an arms race. SpamAssassin gets better, then the spammers adjust.
Part of the problem with open source spam filters, the Bad Guys can reverse engineer what's currently being tested.
I kinda wish that the SpamAssassin group would separate their tests from their product development, so we could get more frequent update of the "offical" spam assassin filters. However, I remember reading somewhere that testing and evalutating any new rules against their current corpus takes quite a long time.
Also, make sure you check out http://www.rulesemporium.com/ for more frequently updated rules.
OK, reading the slashdot comments, I found this:
:-)
Privacy Policy. A little more comforting...
Also, check this out:
68 http://login.passport.net November 2002 Microsoft Corp Go US
69 http://slashdot.org November 1997 Savvis Go US
I guess this proves that Microsoft's passport is more popular then slashdot
OK, I'm a WinXP user, SP2, pop-ups turned completely off, run SpyBot, AdAware and look at my BHO's at least once a week because I don't trust computer programs, even though/because I write them for a living...
:-), and have a couple of first impressions. I'm going to apply the "Mother Test" to the tool bar to evaluate it's usefullnes.
:-)
Installed it, read the instructions and FAQ (I know, I'm not supposed to do that
The tool bar installs with initally two items, Netcraft, and Services. Services is simply a drop down with links to all of Netcrafts services, trying to drum up business. I initally thought that services would hot link to some of the Netcraft tools like uptime and what is that site running, but no, just links to the main pages for them. There are 7 main items under serives, and 19 sub-items. Offerings
are impressive, but I don't think my mother would care at all about Hosting Providers or Web site auditing.
I can't evaluate the pop-up blocker since I have pop-ups completely turned off via XP SP2. I also run the Google toolbar, so pop-ups haven't bothered me in quite some time (except those occational ones that sneak through when you hold down the ctrl key to click a pop-up link. Who ever thought of using the same key to allow all pop-ups and allow one pop-up should be shot.)
As for the phishing, looks like it will work fine. The toolbar will have to pull down a new definitions file every couple of hours (2 by default), but that should be fine. Reporting a site is relatively easy. This is a thumbs up for the Mother Test
The Stats that it displays are pretty worthless. Pretty flags, but other than that, who cares. Rank is meaningless unless they get rid of their own sites. Pretty obvious that the most visited site is http://toolbar.netcraft.com.
The thing that most disturbs me are the stats that are gathered: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites
*Without*any*privacy*statement*, I have no idea what they are doing with my browsing information. This certainly scares me enough to uninstall this sucker. I understand that privacy is going away, I just like to fight it tooth and nail. (Except google, their cool. Until their IPO. oh wait...
Oh yea. Regarding my subject: look at line 12 of the stats:
Rank Site First Seen Netblock Site Report Country
12 http://banners.netcraft.com June 2003 Netcraft Go UK