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Re: OT: popfile

2004-01-22 11:05:00


On 22 Jan 2004 Meng Weng Wong <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:44:25AM -0800, James Couzens wrote:
| > Take a look at POPFile, this Bayesian system is keeping 99% of the spam 
| > out of my inbox and it's FAR is currently 0.01%  ;-)
| 
| At a MASSIVE cost of cpu cycles.  I've tried running pfile on a celeron
| 466 system (256 mb ram) which ground to a halt after a couple weeks of
| use, granted a decent level of mail traffic.  However, even on the

I come from an ISP point of view.  My goal is to reduce costs for my ISP.

Content filtering solutions are not acceptable for exactly this reason.
In fact, SPF is good because we don't even have to bear the bandwidth of DATA.

I'm not sure this computes for me at least.  SPF is an authentication 
method, it says the mail is coming from a source approved by the domain 
owner.  For those that are saying that they will limit the IP addresses 
then you might want to reject immediately.  For a connection where you do 
not get this limitation then you'll still have to process the mail 
somehow.

SPF says nothing about the content of the message.  You may get spam that 
passes; you may get good mail that SPF says is a forged source.

It it your intent to simply reject the mail based on SPF?

  

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