I've compiled and installed it without problems. Good job ;)
On jue, 2005-05-12 at 20:57 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > I have made a package closing a RFP (#273937). > > It's released under Artistic license. Below is the description telling > what it the program and the differences between other spam filters. > > Quick Spam Filter (QSF) is an Open Source email classification filter, > designed to be small, fast, and accurate, which works to classify > incoming email as either spam or non-span. To recognise spam, QSF strips > the text out of the email (using MIME decoding and HTML stripping) and > then splits it into tokens (words, word pairs, URLs, and so on). These > tokens are then looked up in a database and analysed using the Bayesian > technique to see whether the email should be classified as spam or not. > The database is generated by a process of training - QSF is given two > mailboxes, one containing known spam, and the other containing known > non-spam, to train itself on. After training, if QSF misfiles any email, > the message it got wrong can be fed back into the database, thus making > QSF learn from its mistakes. For a more in-depth look at the way in > which QSF tokenises and classifies messages, please see the Technical > Details section of the manual. QSF is designed to be run by an MDA, such > as procmail. > QSF's targets are speed, accuracy, and simplicity. So: > * It is small and is written in C so it starts up quickly, unlike > filters written in Perl. > * It understands MIME and HTML, so it can intelligently deal with modern > spam, unlike older Bayesian filters such as ifile. > * It runs as an inline filter rather than as a daemon, so it is simple > to install. > * It is written to do only one job - decide whether an email is spam or > not using the content of the message alone - so it is less complex than > filters such as SpamAssassin. Less complexity means bugs and security > problems are less likely. > * As well as words and word pairs, QSF also spots special patterns in > email such as runs of gibberish, HTML comments embedded in text, and > other common spam giveaways, and its flexible tokeniser allows more > patterns to be added as spammers change their tactics. > Homepage: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/qsf/ > > Package and source code are available at > http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/qsf/ > > Package is linda and lintian clean. Builds OK on pbuilder. > > Someone may say that there is no .orig file. That's because upstream > author gives me access to project CVS. He preferred that, instead of > removing the /debian dir from the source code. He has his reasons to > maintain /debian dir, even after I have talked to him and explained > about distributing /debian dir on source code. > > Well, I think that is it. Error, suggestions, critics, are all welcome! :-) > > Thank you! > Nelson > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCg+1TAQwuptkwlkQRAt/qAJ9T/GJGvm2pXmLGiiO08yJ2iO7mmQCfbBqU > oP6Si5N0XtCCtd8WYCSFCXI= > =PlNJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Carlos Parra Camargo Emergya, Soluciones Tecnol�gicas Tel. +34 954 98 10 53 FAX +34 954 98 11 79 Avda. Luis Montoto, 105 E41007 Sevilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.emergya.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
