Re: please kindly get back to me

H. Peter Anvin
2002-06-03T19:50:53Z

Followup to: <20020603120653.C4940@work.bitmover.com>
By author: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
>

The biggest problem is that you're bound to get sued, so you have to
worry about legal defence...

-hpa
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