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here's the scoop on the tool _ _ _____ _ __ <*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk> | \ | |_ _| |/ / _ __ __2002-02-22_ o join! mail an empty message to | \| | | | | ' / | '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / / o [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |\ | | | | . \ | | | | (_) \ v v / o website (+ archive) lives at: |_| \_| |_| |_|\_\|_| |_|\___/ \_/\_/ o http://www.ntk.net/ >> TRACKING << sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering SPAMASSASSIN sits between you and your inbox, picking over your mail and weighting it against over two hundred spam indicators, like multiple exclamation marks, the phrase "Trace anyone by social security number", and "This is not spam". Mails that trip one too many sensors get tagged with an indicator in the subject line and a detailed justification for their punishment in the body. They can be automatically bounced back to source, sent off to /dev/null or reported to the authorities. If Spam- assasin's barrel of ingenious regexp tests wasn't enough, the author, official NTK hero Justin Mason, has assimilated wider checks (Vipul's razor, various blackhole databases) into the program, and uses a genetic algorithm to regularly re-weigh the settings - leading to a really very impressive hit rate. Out of around 130 messages (or 677KB) of spam a day, v1.0 spam- assassin let through only a handful of bad boys, and imprisoned less than one legitimate mail a day. And Version 2.0's new auto -whitelist means that now even your most spam-akin friends need only stop SHOUTING!!! for one posting to be permanently allowed past. There's a standalone assassin daemon for ISPs, and a great deal of contributed activity with the prog. In the long run, we guess it may just make the spammers smarter, but, hell, we'd be happy with even that small evolutionary step. If you haven't got it, take a look. And if you have - how did we score? http://spamassassin.taint.org/ - of course this will only breed super-smart resistant spammers http://spamassassin.taint.org/tests.html - and we're always suspect because of our LINE OF YELLING
