John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1) make room for passing a reference to a message instead of the message
> itself, to reduce network latency when it is not necessary (for example,
> if the spamd chosen just happens to be on localhost (because it's part
> of a list of servers that are being balanced), then you'll waste a lot
> of time transfering the message through the socket, instead of just
> transfering the path to the file that contains the message).

+1 sounds good

(well, assuming the message is actually in a file)

> 2) make room for using other tools in addition to spam assassin (for
> example, running an external virus scanner), making spamc/spamd a
> possible nice general purpose means of distributing the load for email
> scanning (not just for spam marking type scanning) and even email
> delivery.

+0 might be good

Daniel

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