On Friday 09 November 2007 01:34, Christopher Woods wrote:
> Does anybody have a new mashup to show off?
I wrote this in my spare time for use at home:
* http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/KamaeliaGrey
- it's a greylisting SMTP proxy for eliminating spam.
It uses Kamaelia which is something I developed at work. My home email tends
to have the ratio of <4% spam, 96% non-spam. (before adding it my email was
96% spam, 4% spam)
I've been running it for handling my email at home for the past couple of
months, and it's been pretty solid that entire time filtering around 77,000
messages in that time.
Given 96% of those were spam, that means I've not had to do anything with
~74000 messages. Assuming 1 second to categorise each, that's a saving of ~21
hours. Unlike a spambayes approach the cpu usage is next to nothing. It took
less than 21 hours to write (probably more like 10 hours or so all told
spread over a the weekend a few evenings) though so there's a net benefit.
You can consider it a mashup if you like because Kamaelia components have
outboxes and inboxes which are mashed together.
If you think of outboxes like RSS feeds (or pull from atom pubsub) and inboxes
as being similar to push in AtomPub, then the differences are conceptually
minimal. You then join the dots together, much like in a mashup.
Regards,
Michael
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