On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:04:33 +0530, Rony
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The reason for this detailed description is to highlight that in
> Windows one simply runs the JRE exe and it is installed
> automatically.
Heavens. You have to download the exe manually from somewhere?
or click on some untrusted source to get the JRE from?
% aptitude install sun-java5-jre
or
% aptitude install sun-java6-jre
(:-), for the humour impaired)
> I did not rant about this as I thought that a solution will be in
> sight as time goes by. However when some people post ridiculous
> statements that anything the does not work in Linux is crap, this
> reaction is bound to happen and all the drawbacks of FOSS will come
> out. What is the use of FOSS if it does not get peoples' work done and
> in a reasonably fast installation time.
There is no computing environment where everything works
perfectly. But in my experience, Debian does get the work done for me,
which I can't get done otherwise, because either the functionality does
not exist, or is too expensive, or can't be tailored to my needs.
How does one implement a non-bayesian OSB markov model Spam
filtering on windows? How can one augment that with rules based
checking, and perhaps a naive bayesian alternate? And how about adding
selective grey listing? And SMTP time rejection of viruses?
On Debian, I use sendmail, mimedefang, spamassassin, clamav, and
mailagent [0], and I have not discovered a false positive in over 30
months, and I get false negatives now at the rate of about 2 a week
(700mails a day input -- [1]) -- and unsure messages of about 3-5/day,
which I use to train the filters.
Seems like windows would let me down -- and windows has far more
need of blocking the Spam.
Mind you, I am not saying that Debian would fit the needs of
most people -- but the claim that closed source software gets things
done and the free software community is always in catch-up mode is not
something I can let go unchallenged.
manoj
[0]: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/blog/manoj/categories/spam.html
[1]: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/mail/
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