Re: RE: [Micronet] Sophos MailMonitor on CalMail

Question: Since you've had great luck with ClamAV, which uses a
collaborative model to identify viruses, why not also use a
collaborative tool such as Vipul's Razor to identify spam? Vipul's
could be run in parallel with Pure Message (which by itself is
really not identifying the amount of spam that it should be).

Akismet
Vipul's Razor
Clam AV

All collaborative, all extremely effective, since they rely on the
entire network of humans out there marking bad stuff as bad stuff.

Also, rather than having to forward spam messages to an address,
could you publish IMAP access info for a public/shared spam drop
box into which we could drag spam from our mail clients? Would make
life much easier...

Best,
Scot

On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Bernie Rossi wrote:

> Hi Lucia and all,
>
> From comments I have received, there is a bit of confusion on what
> is exactly happening here. We are only getting rid of Sophos
> MailMonitor, we are still running Pure Message for spam.
>
> I did write an article for the IST news, I thought I had sent it to
> the lists also, if I am wrong, here is the link:
>
> http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Fall2006/952.html
>
> We do have an account to send spam to that will help alleviate some
> of the problems. I also have noticed that we are going through a
> rash of spam right now, sigh......
>
>
> Bernie
>
>
>
> At 7:57 AM -0700 10/10/06, lucia greco wrote:
>> Hi:
>> What does this mean for the end user when it comes to spam
>> filling our
>> inbox. Will there be a new address to send spam to that makes it
>> through the
>> filter. This talks about mal wear but no mention of spam. At this
>> time I
>> would think that spam is more of a problem as most people have
>> antivirus
>> but not any have a good spam filter.
>> Lucia Greco
>> University of California Berkeley
>> Assistive Technology Specialist
>> (510) 643-7591
>>
>
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