John -- While your point is well taken, the fact of the matter is that the documentation for most of these tools SUCKS! The documentation is fine when looking at an individual SPAM blocker like Spam Assassin, but when you start talking about integrating it with Razor or SURBL, its hopeless.
The documentation is barely ever updated, and to my knowledge, there's nothing like a good, comprehensive, regularly updated FAQ. What's needed is a "Spam Central" where people can come and ask questions and look for answers re integration, setup, usage, etc... Razor, I think, is one of the best examples of terrible documentation. I've been using it for over a year, and have pretty much had to figure out myself how it works. I'm GUESSING that what I'm doing is correct when I report a folder full of SPAM, but I'm not sure. Rgs, Zeb On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, John Andersen wrote: :Except that SA already does WAY better than Razor at detecting spam, and :turning off Razor check in SA does not hurt it's detection rate at all but :does improve performance. : :Lets face it, Razor NEEDS something like SpamAssassin and a few others :to tell it what is spam. : :Given that, Why bother with razor? Once 'ive detected something as spam :with SA (or what ever) why should I feed Razor? : :Razor has a fundamentally flawed design, which is parasitic on the rest of the :anti-spam industry. : :In spite of the fact that spam is evolving very fast, :SA, Bayes, and other tools catch it first, and then, only after some days does :it ever show up in razor. : :The best advice is to move off of razor to a "primary detector" spam engine, :and not wait till the secondary detectors catch up. : :And since most spam contains web addresses something like :surbl makes more sense than Razor. See http://surbl.org/ : :I hate being so negative about Razor but useing it for 3 years and :watching the hit rate compared to the rest of SpamAssassin has :convinced me Razor is built on false assumptions. ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
