Stefano Mazzocchi dijo: > 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.
Hmm. The new machines are right for the work. AFAIK, one of them is intended to be used only as mail server. Also, you will wonder what hardware you get for a US$ 60,000 anti-virus, anti-spam appliance. On the consuming resources, there is a daemond (spamd/spamc) that consume far less resources on the server side. spamd use 11 MB I think this is almost nothing. Instead of being afraid of the load, I think we really need to test it and see if the new machines can work with spamassassin or not. It can be very easily turned on and off. > But my biggest concern is about false positives. Yep. This is the first question showed in the table when we talk about a "anti-spam" software. (warning: too far to be a spamassassin guru...): In fact the too few (almost nothing) I learned of spamassassin is that can be configured per user. That way you can set it as benevolent or strict you want. Spamassassin IS NOT the "final anti-spam solution", but if a spam rank more than 40 points you can be sure it is a spam! > 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. precious CPU power? I really want to see where we use it. >From minotaur, right now: $uptime 7:04PM up 35 days, 20:04, 15 users, load averages: 0.42, 0.59, 0.62 Hmm. looks like our precious CPU power is going to the basket, right?. :-( Can we use it in a better way? > 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. AFAIK,spamassassin can do this and more.:-D Seriously, I really think the ASF need to step up the anti-spam policy. >From my POV will be fine to think in spamassassin. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
