-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi mentors!
A time ago (before Sarge release) I have sent a RFS to the list. But since Sarge was going to be released, I think that everyone was busy. It closes a RFP (#273937). 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/ It's released under Artistic license, linda and lintian clean and builds OK on pbuilder. Package, source and other files available at http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/qsf/ Upstream author gaves me access to the project CVS, so the diff file is small. If I change something on the package, I will updated CVS, and vice-versa. Thank you very much! Nelson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCshh9AQwuptkwlkQRAqZlAJ4gVPP6LFE/Y6yfpEakBUfE3SFeVQCggZ2z AiF//Oc4OYcyaygNWc85fsc= =/Bvp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
