Oooo, now that's an interesting one, I'll hav to give that a try (I get tons of the crap and although I have on-server mail filtering I get them all delivered to my PC anyway to avoid not receiving false positives). Also evaluating various on-PC mail filters for my Mum (who's your typical learn-by-rote PC user, so it has to be easy to use!)
Cheers for the point-out mate, I'll have to check that out this weekend! :) (PS - anyone else going to SBES @ the NEC on the 14th or 15th?) > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Sparks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 November 2007 12:30 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: Etiquette and TCP (was Re: [backstage] Use of > Tinyurl in Emails) > > On Friday 09 November 2007 01:34, Christopher Woods wrote: > > Does anybody have a new mashup to show off? > > I wrote this in my spare time for use at home: > * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/KamaeliaGrey > > - it's a greylisting SMTP proxy for eliminating spam. > > It uses Kamaelia which is something I developed at work. My > home email tends to have the ratio of <4% spam, 96% non-spam. > (before adding it my email was 96% spam, 4% spam) > > I've been running it for handling my email at home for the > past couple of months, and it's been pretty solid that entire > time filtering around 77,000 messages in that time. > > Given 96% of those were spam, that means I've not had to do > anything with ~74000 messages. Assuming 1 second to > categorise each, that's a saving of ~21 hours. Unlike a > spambayes approach the cpu usage is next to nothing. It took > less than 21 hours to write (probably more like 10 hours or > so all told spread over a the weekend a few evenings) though > so there's a net benefit. > > You can consider it a mashup if you like because Kamaelia > components have outboxes and inboxes which are mashed together. > > If you think of outboxes like RSS feeds (or pull from atom > pubsub) and inboxes as being similar to push in AtomPub, then > the differences are conceptually minimal. You then join the > dots together, much like in a mashup. > > Regards, > > > Michael > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
