hello all,

I'm testing Vipul's razor (not spamassassin, just razor2).  I'm
going to ask friends and clients to forward spam to me (part
of the testing process, if things work out, we'll install razor2
on our mail server).

Is anyone aware of a way to strip forwarding information from 
email?  I can afford for the stripping to be imperfect (i realize
that it's going to be imperfect since lots of people have lots
of weird ways to quote text).  i'll just not report spam if the
stripping didn't work correctly. preferably, the forward stripping
should work via procmail although it doesn't have to.  it can work 
on the command line too.  i can figure out a way to make it work
the way i want.

how is spamassassin or razor on heavy traffic mailservers?  we
already have antivirus scanning on our mailservers.  but traffic
isn't that heavy, and CPU load isn't a big deal yet.  razor makes
socket connections to razor servers when checking signatures and
when reporting.  is this a problem?  i noticed on razor-users 
mailing list today that the razor1 servers are getting hit hard 
and so checking was going slow.  something like that would slow 
things down on the checking mailserver's side too (possibly
having much mail queue up for checking before being delivered,
and if it goes on indefinitely, a DOS attack on the razor servers
would be a DOS attack on my mailserver too).

thanks for any pointers.  and discussion of spam blocking is
going to be good too.  on razor-users, someone pointed at:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

which is interesting and was apparently discussed on slashdot.
i've only seen the article though, and not the slashdot 
discussion.

tiger

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