Hey. I have spam filtering setup on my family's mail server. it works pretty well, but it used to work better. those tricky spammers are finding ways through spamassassin. problem is, managing a spam filter is not something I want to devote a lot of time to. whenever possible I want it to just work.
So, I was thinking about how clam-av seems to work pretty well and how the virus database is updated automagically... and this got me thinking about setting up some thing that would share spam filters among participants in a similar way. I'm thinking there could be one or more centralized database of spam filters, in which each filter has a score dependent on a few things such as how trustworthy the submitter is and how well it's been reported to work by other participants. As that score climbs, it would be given increased importance in the spamassassin scoring system. hm... it would be nice too to have some user-side (smtp server side) config too that would allow users of the filters to give specific filters more weight. and config tool could be used as the voting system that gives feedback to the centralized databases. the best first question is: does something like this exist? the next question... how well do you think something like this would work? is it a good idea? is it worth the time it would require? do you think enough people would participate to make it work well? - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
