[ale] Spamassassin cleaning

Jim Philips jimmyc at speedfactory.net
Thu Jun 16 18:54:14 EDT 2005


On Thursday 16 June 2005 02:29 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 08:34 -0400, Doug McNash wrote:
> > Spamassassin is a perl script, right? And you expect top performance from
> > a script, right!  All scripting languages (including Java) are dogs.
> > Real programmers program real programs in C. (They used to program in
> > assembler but those guys are all gone now.)
>
> Is there a comparable solution written in C


That would be Bogofilter. It's dramatically faster than Spamassassin. You can 
even use Spamassassin to train it. The last time I used it, it wasn't quite 
as effective as Spamassassin, but that may have changed.

http://www.bogofilter.org



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