When my company used UUnet/Worldcom for Internet services, we were plagued by the constant blacklisting of nearly all UUnet IP address blocks. I have sympathy for people who are in this situation. Last week, I tried a different approach from the typical RBL use. I tried using SpamAssassin, Razor in conjunction with Mailscanner. It worked amazingly well. Razor works in a way that legitimate e-mail will not be blacklisted and unsolicited email will be flagged. It is as simple as that. From what I understand, Razor takes the checksum of the incoming mail and compares it to a database of blacklisted mail. Spamassassin, although not flawless, does a pretty good job on determining what is spam. The only RBL I insist you use now is ORDB.
Perl and PHP have two very different philosophies. On one hand, PHP strives to be a language whereby changes can be made quickly and easily. It's a very web-based language, so those OO features are not the main focus, but more as luxuries, whether you have time to implement them.
PHP is the ideal language for web-based programming. Don't get me wrong, Perl is excellent, but PHP is for a different market. There is now a new measuring stick for web-based languages--Perl will always be needed, but it is for a different use.
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When my company used UUnet/Worldcom for Internet services, we were plagued by the constant blacklisting of nearly all UUnet IP address blocks. I have sympathy for people who are in this situation. Last week, I tried a different approach from the typical RBL use. I tried using SpamAssassin, Razor in conjunction with Mailscanner. It worked amazingly well. Razor works in a way that legitimate e-mail will not be blacklisted and unsolicited email will be flagged. It is as simple as that. From what I understand, Razor takes the checksum of the incoming mail and compares it to a database of blacklisted mail. Spamassassin, although not flawless, does a pretty good job on determining what is spam. The only RBL I insist you use now is ORDB.
Perl and PHP have two very different philosophies. On one hand, PHP strives to be a language whereby changes can be made quickly and easily. It's a very web-based language, so those OO features are not the main focus, but more as luxuries, whether you have time to implement them. PHP is the ideal language for web-based programming. Don't get me wrong, Perl is excellent, but PHP is for a different market. There is now a new measuring stick for web-based languages--Perl will always be needed, but it is for a different use.