[Tfug] Suggestions for an email gateway

[Sam Hart]

Yeah, okay, that's very true. Besides, Vipul's Razor is typically so easy 
to install (Debian people can apt-get it, it comes in United Linux, and 
RH9 has RPMs for it) that I guess it never hurts.

* On 03-11-25, Jacob Greig wrote:

> 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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Sam Hart
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