Hello Peter, On Friday, June 10, 2005 at 23:56:22 GMT +0200 (which was 23:56:22 where I live), Peter Palmreuther wrote and made these valuable points on the subject of "spamalot":
> Hello Dick, > On Friday, June 10, 2005 at 10:44:52 PM Dick [DH] wrote: > *erm* Maybe I'm dense and therefore don't see the "brand new" on this > product. So please correct me someone if I got it wrong, but doesn't > the program simply > 1) calculate spam probability by using a word database > 2) calculate a "fuzzy hash" and compare it against a central database > ??? If so: 1) some/many of us use in form of "BayesIT" or "Bayes > Filter Plugin" plus SpamAssassin does this kind of Bayes-matching > already since *hmmm* some versions ago. And 2) I know from SA as well, > it's called 'Razor' or 'DCC' there. > So what's the 'brand new' about it? > And what's worth 25.000 � copying SA? It's not based on SA but Spambayes (this SpamExpert program is also written in Python). It seems that those students fine tuned the Spambayes kernel and built a new shell around it. Furthermore, and that is very nice, you don't need to change your email client as a DLL will be installed that automatically intercept all POP3 calls. So, the (sometimes complicated) email client modifications you have to do with most of the anti-spam tools (AFIK not with Spampal, that has something similar), is not required with this new program. Anyway, I'll give it a try for about 4 weeks and if I like it, I keep it else I will go back to Spambayes. -- Best regards, Dick ___________________________________________________________ The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese. Using The Bat! v3.5.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Privacy is your right...only if you defend it: http://www.metropipe.net/landing.cgi?id=cloggy ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
