[Spambayes] SpamBayes future platforms

[Coe, Bob]

Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. Despite the justifiably acclaimed efficacy of the current (client-centered) Spambayes implementation, it evidently still has a few bugs and anomalies to be worked out. These aren't hard to deal with at the client-machine level, but might be much more troublesome on a server. I'd vote for deferring any server-based filtering until the current product matures for a while.

Another thing: Bayesian filtering is inherently slooooow. Most modern PCs have more than enough power to absorb this increased computational load, since processing email isn't, by itself, a very CPU-intensive operation. But if you threw that load onto your Exchange Server, you might suddenly find yourself short of CPU power or memory, or both.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bobby Wilkins [mailto:hwilkins at harrahs.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: Stuart, Bill; Iacangelo, Tony
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] SpamBayes future platforms
> 
> 
> Actually, the FAQ makes some suggestions, but what I'd like 
> to see if feasible is the filter running on the server, but 
> using server-scripting or something similar to still filter 
> per-user.  
> 
> Has anyone started think along those lines as yet?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart, Bill [mailto:Stuart at tessco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:22 AM
> To: 'Iacangelo, Tony'
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] SpamBayes future platforms
> 
> 
> > From: Iacangelo, Tony [mailto:Tiacangelo at APWUHP.com]
> > 
> > I have read several articles about SpamBayes lately - ALL 
> POSITIVE!  I
> > support a small office of around 100 Microsoft Exchange 
> 2000 users who
> > constantly complain about spam.  My current solution to 
> block unwanted
> > SPAM (Symantec product) also blocks legitimate email - so I 
> seem to get
> > more complaints than I did before.  My question is this: Do 
> you plan to
> > develop a version to support Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tony Iacangelo
> [...]
> 
> Tony,
> This is answered in the SpamBayes FAQ:
> http://shorterlink.com/?TXSZKJ  
> 
>  - Bill
>    stuart at tessco.com 
>    Hunt Valley, MD, USA
> 
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