[Tfug] Suggestions for an email gateway

[Jacob Greig]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Sam Hart wrote:

> 	* Vipul's Razor : The idea behind it is great and all
> (distributiuve P2P SPAM checking network), but the problem I've found from
> snooping the checksums is that typically the SPAM distributes faster than
> the checksums do on the P2P network. In other words, you get the checksum
> too late to do any good. Plus, since I've set this up on a couple of
> machines, I've found you get some really wierd gaps in the P2P network,
> and sometimes a checksum will just fall off before it gets to a particular
> machine.

Except its a good idea to keep razor on for checksums that are already
known. a razor lookup can be a heck of a lot faster than a dcc or running
through a gazillion spamassassin rules.

I agree it doesn't work well for new spam, but for older spam it can be
great.

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Jacob Greig
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