Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-08 Thread Richie Laager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 April 2002 16:10 pm, Bart Schaefer wrote: > The first thing you need is an algorithm for determining > whether two messages are similar enough to be considered the > same. E.g., Razor uses a hash of a stripped subset of the > message. >

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > What I don't see anywhere, though, is the notion of the elimination of > spam through comparison of messages in different mailboxes. Most of the > algorithms I have found so-far analyze a _single message to determine if > it "look

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-08 Thread Craig R Hughes
Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > That's interesting. I'll look into it. > > What I don't see anywhere, though, is the notion of the elimination of spam > through comparison of messages in different mailboxes. Most of the > algorithms I have found so-far analyze a _single message t

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-08 Thread Sundial Services International, Inc.
That's interesting. I'll look into it. What I don't see anywhere, though, is the notion of the elimination of spam through comparison of messages in different mailboxes. Most of the algorithms I have found so-far analyze a _single message to determine if it "looks like spam." At 06:58 PM 4/7

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
Been away on vacation and just caught up with this ... On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > In other words, this script is going to connect through POP3 to the other > mail server, get the text of all the pending mail (up to 5MB of data), > compare and run it through

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own ... (clarification)

2002-04-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > Oops, that wasn't too clear... let me clean up the text a bit here > > > > Here's my problem. We use an external ISP to handle our mail, and of course > we are getting pummeled with spam so fast that the mailbox can fill up > within hours.