Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:03:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:03:46 -0400 Received: from mail3.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.38]:4744 "EHLO mail3.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:03:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:03:38 -0700 (PDT) From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" To: Larry McVoy cc: Matti Aarnio , "Holzrichter, Bruce" , Subject: Re: please kindly get back to me In-Reply-To: <20020603120653.C4940@work.bitmover.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:00:46PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > Anti-spam technology really needs constant evolution, as those > > spammers do evolve themselves... > > If ever there was something which was screaming for an open source > project, it's spam filtering. It seems like every major mailing list > has someone like Matti, working really hard on a thankless task, but > losing out under the tide of new spam every day. Seems to me if there > was a public repository (sourceforge, bkbits, whatever) with a > collection of procmail filters which have been shown to work > correctly, that would be a win. Now that there are Linux viruses, maybe we also need an open source virus scanner. -- M. Edward Borasky znmeb@borasky-research.net The COUGAR Project http://www.borasky-research.com/Cougar.htm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/