Based on how far their mailing lists go back, Razor and DCC have been
around since the 2000/2001 time period, and as far as I can tell were
independent projects.
In fact, they're based on different goals/models, which is why it's
useful to use both of them. Razor is interested in specifically
identifying spam, so it provides a way to both report and revoke
emails (technically hashes of emails). DCC determines how bulky or
massive a bulk or mass mail is, not how spammy it is, which is why
whitelisting is so important in DCC (
Perhaps you were thinking of Pyzor, which did come about because of
Razor's semi-closed source nature?
(and yes, I know all about top-posting being a no-no, but there was no
obvious place to jump in to the following thread, and yet it seemed
important for context)
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jo Rhett wrote:
Matt Kettler wrote:
Which policy change is that? And what community has DCC lost support in?
(and then he answers his own question)
that's not exactly recent. (Spring 2005)
Sorry, after doing this for 20 years anything that happened a year ago is
"recent". Sorry if that confused you.
I'd also not call that a "policy decision", as that implies it was made
Again, wording. Sorry. Decisions forced versus decision freely made are both
decisions. You're right, I could have been more specific but I wans't aiming
for that level of accuracy when I mumbled this.
I've not seen anything resembling "loss of community support" for DCC as
a result.
<shrug> 2 years ago everyone I know used DCC. Now, my employer is the last
remaining site that I know of using DCC. They were one of the first public
DCC servers (2 digit number) and strongly support Vernon. And they are ~2
weeks away from shutting that down forever.
> which is pretty much why Razor sprang into existence.
Your facts are pretty far off here. (snip)
Sorry, level of accuracy was related to my own personal observations. Nobody
that I know of used Razor until DCC became difficult. I know that we used to
compile without razor support locally.
I think I'll take my own advice and not reply on things that I don't know the
in-depth details of.
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