On 9/3/2014 4:29 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
I've been thinking it could easily be a full time job to read spam,
write sa rules, test sa rules, etc.
There isn't enough time in my day for that, so I'm pretty much running
SA un-customized. I do have bayes, which I do train with my own spam
& ham, but I don't have a good population of users that I would trust
to determine what is spam. So I don't think I have a very good
representative sample. It works, but it could be better.
Is there a paid service that will take care of this for me, but that
also directly benefits the Spam Assassin project? I'm aware of
services like Barracuda (and many others), but I would prefer to know
that our payments would help keep the project alive and healthy and up
to date. I feel that if we're paying somebody, we might as well pay
somebody who's work benefits the entire spam fighting world.
There are two firms that fall under that category.
One is CanIT by Roaring Penguin
(http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/canit-pro) . It's not directly
related to the project but David Skoll does a good job of walking the
thin line between supporting open source (MIMEDefang is their project)
and living with your family on the street. He's also been a constant
force in the anti-spam community for many years.
Second is Raptor by PCCC (http://raptor.pccc.com/) which is my firm. We
provide paid services and contribute considerably to the project as well
as the anti-spam community.
And since you mentioned Barracuda, I will say they are also a good force
with their BRBL, for example, and they are an excellent service that
doesn't help spammers. Companies with anti-spam expertise that help
spammers is unfortunately all too much of a reality.
Regards,
KAM
