On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:10:48 +1000 Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ML> > Either we should rely on external (ISP-based for example) spam filters or we ML> > should integrate an existing spam detection library. One possible condidate is ML> > http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ ML> ML> I spend some time in anti-spam circles and I have never heard of anyone ML> using it. I also notice that a prerequisite for using it is a unix ML> based mail server. This would suggest it is going to be a server based ML> solution rather than a client based one (or is that what you intended)? No, it consists of 2 components: the one you saw (working on mail server) and a library. I'm interested in using the library. ML> The site appears to me (at first glance) to be full of buzz words but ML> somewhat short on substance. I don't know much about it but it was recommended to me by someone whom I respect so I'd like to at least try it out... ML> > If you know of others, please add them here. ML> ML> [EMAIL PROTECTED] PERL ML> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Python ML> ML> Both can be used as is or further integrated into mail packages. Both ML> inherently platform independant. I think we need something in C/C++. ML> I have used Popfile for years and can attest to it's efficacy. 99.85%+ ML> success is very achievable. It uses the Train on Error system so you ML> only classify messages it got wrong reducing corpus size and reducing ML> corpus poisoning attempts by spammers et al. It is also aimed at being ML> a text classification system more than just a spam detector and with ML> very little work could replace most of the filtering capabilities found ML> in Mahogany at present. But we'd need to always embed Perl then... I'm not sure I like it. ML> It can also be very successfully trained to sort out the spam and the ML> ham from a particular address. Case in point, I am on the wxPython ML> mailing list. It is often spammed, gets those "unsubscribe" messages ML> in-list, gets malware type messages, gets on-vacation annoucements from ML> list users, bounced messages, "I found a virus" messages from ML> anti-virus scanners etc yet I do not see those because I have trained ML> it to discriminate them in multiple languages too! This does look good. Of course, if I understand it correctly, dpsam pretends to do the same. ML> I have not used Spambayes but have heard of good experiences with it. Is SpamAssasin engine available as a library? Thanks, VZ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
