Hello William, This is a very good question. I had to ask that of myself just 2 weeks ago. Pyzor is great, it marks up Spam really well. I'm not going to report statistics, but it is *very* effective in reducing levels of Spam.
However, as our site is quite busy, the amount of Pyzor hash lookups in any segment of time were becoming too much, and the lookups would start timing out - creating very long scan times for Spamassassin, which eventually got overloaded - Too much incoming mail and not enough time to scan it. So, we regrettably disabled Pyzor for our site. I would happily enable it again, but only as a server - pulling down updates from other servers every so often during the day, and allowing people to do lookups against our server - problem is that the boss doesn't want this... So we just get more Spam. Anyway.. if you're going to enable it, watch Pyzor in case it has problems talking to it's server - the results are undesirable. Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: William Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 October 2008 4:26 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: is Pyzor worth it? > > Is Pyzor worth running these days? > Is it still effective? > Can anyone using it comment on it? > > > Thanks, > William
