Antonio Gallardo wrote:
Hi:
The motivation to write this mail and ask about is: 2 days ago, I installed the spamassassin - http://incubator.apache.org/projects/spamassassin.html Because as many of us I really hate the spam. But what I found is more interesting:
I get mails from to my apache.org address that in spamassassin got more than 40 points! This clearly signs to me we are not eating our own dogfood. And spamassassin is really very tasty and nutritive! ;-).
Will the ASF use Spamassassin?
the ASF infrastructure team is currently testing one of the new IBM boxes (hermes.apache.org) to test the load. spamassassin is a pretty resource intensive beast and even if we do have those new shiny boxes, there is concern about load.
But my biggest concern is about false positives.
One solution would be to use spamassassin for tagging purposes only, but at that point it's much better to let people do the filtering themselves. There is no reason in wasting precious CPU power for that.
A more socially-acceptable compromise would be to leave the "threshold level" of the cutoff point to the various people to set (you could set a .spam_threshold file in your home directory with the cut-off point). So, if you keep the threshold low and complain, well, that was your own fault.
-- Stefano.
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