> I guess what I am getting at here is that there are lots of "free" > choices/options/solutions available out there without having to > resort to pricey and convoluted options like CommTouch.
Bill, to be fair, DCC is plenty convoluted itself, if you follow the requirement to run your own DCC daemon when passing hosting-level traffic. Razor only became acceptable for hosting/reseller use extremely recently. And free use of Razor, i.e. using the razor-clients package instead of using a commercial Cloudmark product, either requires facility with *nix, or a full-fledged, non-spamd SpamAssassin fork (because I think there is no standalone razor-client package for Windows, though there is now a compiled SA binary that embeds a working Razor... but which has only a crippled/experimental Win32 spamd). Legally embedding or linking these products into a commercial engine such as Declude is next to impossible compared to using a product designed to be static-linked into commercial products. You probably know I already rely on SPAMC32/spamd for all content checks and I really enjoy having Razor and DCC in the mix (haven't dipped into iXHash yet, but I saw the announcement). But I think it's misleading to imply that CommTouch is convoluted in any technical way, compared to the learning curve of a Declude user going fully with SA. On the contrary: the reason this kind of commoditized, Windows-client distributed system is attractive is precisely _because_ getting dccd, razor-client, and so on working and performing well on Windows is very difficult. Same reason Sniffer is attractive: cross-platform, no dependencies or interpreters, etc. What _is_ convoluted and now-typically insulting is the introduction of an ambiguous, and certainly ominous-sounding, licensing system without feeling out the user base. I refer people to the fact that Declude is said to have made many "new hires" of late -- without once posting a job opening on a list composed of expert users of the product. And, um, the fact that Declude was for a time censoring (deleting without notice) posts to the list that even alluded to support failures, *and without later apology*, was a pretty big signal. But no one seemed to care about that but me (or perhaps everyone's agreement was similarly squelched, I guess). But now people are shocked, *shocked* that their input wasn't deemed valid on this latest dropped bomb. Gee, ya think? --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
