What, exactly, do you mean by "not feasible to do on PC hardware"?
The reason I ask is, my private mail/web server is ridiculously overpowered anyway. Even if it had to spend several minutes on a single e-mail, I might consider that acceptable if it meant a close-to-100% effective spam filter. So, where can I get me some of those algorithms?
In fact, a modern PC isn't that much less powerful than, say, a Sun or SGI box in terms of raw processing power, is it? So I'm wondering what kind of hardware you run your "non-toy" problems on. Are we talking about algorithms that will keep an entire mainframe huffing and puffing for hours?
This proves once more that XS4ALL is one of the greatest ISPs in Europe and possibly the world. No, I'm not affiliated with them, other than being a very happy customer.
Let's face it, how many ISPs would stand by their customer against a rich and dangerous opponent? How many would simply have pulled Karin Spank's site at the first hint of trouble, without caring whether the complaint was justified?
XS4ALL was started by the Dutch hacker group "hack-tic" in a time when Internet access was not available to the general public. Although they are a commercial entity and were bought by the national phone company a few years ago, they remain faithful to the spirit in which they were founded and to their original goals: to promote full, uncensored and unconstrained Internet access for everyone.
Technically, they're great as well -- in my five years as a customer, I've only had a handful of short outages and all of them were caused by the ADSL infrastructure rather than the provider. Power users who want to run Linux, set up a home network and run their own web/mail server are not just allowed, they're encouraged. There's an on-line service page through which you can maintain things like spamfilters, a firewall (off by default, but easy to turn on and heavily promoted) and an experimental IPv6 tunnel. They run a number of game servers themselves and during Gulf War II, they participated in a digital TV trial which offered several Arabian stations in addition to BBC Worldnews etc.
In short, if you're a geek, you should move to the Netherlands just so you can get an XS4ALL account.
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Oh, and please send the invite to mwolf@xs4all.nl. Thanks!
What is black and white, black and white, black and white?
Tux the penguin, rolling down a hill.
What is black and white and laughing?
The penguin that pushed him.
Those other countries mostly don't call themselves "The Land of the Free".
And we're not talking about keeping an entire mainframe working hard -- we're talking keeping a Beowulf cluster of mainframes working hard.
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OK, I get the point. I'll stick to SpamAssassin for now, thanks..
What, exactly, do you mean by "not feasible to do on PC hardware"?
The reason I ask is, my private mail/web server is ridiculously overpowered anyway. Even if it had to spend several minutes on a single e-mail, I might consider that acceptable if it meant a close-to-100% effective spam filter. So, where can I get me some of those algorithms?
In fact, a modern PC isn't that much less powerful than, say, a Sun or SGI box in terms of raw processing power, is it? So I'm wondering what kind of hardware you run your "non-toy" problems on. Are we talking about algorithms that will keep an entire mainframe huffing and puffing for hours?
This proves once more that XS4ALL is one of the greatest ISPs in Europe and possibly the world. No, I'm not affiliated with them, other than being a very happy customer.
Let's face it, how many ISPs would stand by their customer against a rich and dangerous opponent? How many would simply have pulled Karin Spank's site at the first hint of trouble, without caring whether the complaint was justified?
XS4ALL was started by the Dutch hacker group "hack-tic" in a time when Internet access was not available to the general public. Although they are a commercial entity and were bought by the national phone company a few years ago, they remain faithful to the spirit in which they were founded and to their original goals: to promote full, uncensored and unconstrained Internet access for everyone.
Technically, they're great as well -- in my five years as a customer, I've only had a handful of short outages and all of them were caused by the ADSL infrastructure rather than the provider. Power users who want to run Linux, set up a home network and run their own web/mail server are not just allowed, they're encouraged. There's an on-line service page through which you can maintain things like spamfilters, a firewall (off by default, but easy to turn on and heavily promoted) and an experimental IPv6 tunnel. They run a number of game servers themselves and during Gulf War II, they participated in a digital TV trial which offered several Arabian stations in addition to BBC Worldnews etc.
In short, if you're a geek, you should move to the Netherlands just so you can get an XS4ALL account.