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using SpamAssassin for filtering the Usenet articles?
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| totojepast@razdva.cz 2005-10-04, 5:55 pm |
| I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I would
like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached newsgroup
post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
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| Whiskers 2005-10-04, 5:55 pm |
| On 2005-10-04, totojepast@razdva.cz <totojepast@razdva.cz> wrote:
> I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I would
> like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached newsgroup
> post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
I don't know if "SpamAssassin" can be used with news-servers, but
"Cleanfeed" is built for the purpose
<http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/antispam.html>.
If this server is for your own use only, it may be better simply to use an
up-stream news-server that already operates Cleanfeed or some other means
of removing spam etc.
As a local caching proxy NNTP server, I use "Leafnode" (Linux/Unix).
"Hamster" is an excellent Windows program. (I'm not interested in "binary"
groups).
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| Bill Cole 2005-10-05, 2:49 am |
| In article <1128439442.857506.321200@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
totojepast@razdva.cz wrote:
> I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I would
> like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached newsgroup
> post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
If you were running an open news server like INN, it would be relatively
easy. INN has hooks for message filters, with Cleanfeed (a PERL filter)
being the most widely used. It would not be technically difficult to
pump every message through SA using that mechanism. It might be hard to
keep up with, given the relatively heavy load SA imposes.
Since you posted this to the IIS group, I suspect that is not an option
for you, and you would be dependent on what your software vendor
provides.
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| Mike Easter 2005-10-05, 9:03 pm |
| totojepast@razdva.cz wrote:
> I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I would
> like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached newsgroup
> post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
If your newsserver goes back 3 weeks
news:TOXWe.11256$4P5.4379@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net
Else here's a snurled GG http://snipurl.com/i6ed
Newsgroups: alt.spam,comp.ai.neural-nets
Followup-To: alt.spam
Subject: Re: bayesian usenet filtering
Message-ID: <TOXWe.11256$4P5.4379@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:49:55 GMT
CRM114 is modernized Bayesian http://crm114.sourceforge.net/
CRM114 to news http://www.sff.net/people/dave_slus...mnewsfilter.htp
"Dave Slusher is building a Usenet News filter using the CRM114
capabilities. He's playing with it on Usenet, news stories on Google, TV
show listings, all that cool stuff. Check it out at: The CRM114 News
Filter"
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Mike Easter
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| V S Rawat 2005-10-05, 9:03 pm |
| totojepast@razdva.cz wrote:
> I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I
> would like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached
> newsgroup post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
Classic Hamster is a free server having Killfile facility. It
also downloads pop3, and sends smtp. Quite versatile.
Its version 2.1.0.0 has been released just two days ago.
It also has two extensions (needs to be separately downloaded
and installed) called Morver and KorrNews. One preprocess the
downloaded posts before routing it to your reader, and the other
preprocess your outgoing posts before posting them to main
server.
A tiny utility but very powerful and simple. It doesn't use
windows registry at all. I am using the same set of all files
from 98se as well from xpsp2.
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| Robert Spanjaard 2005-10-05, 9:03 pm |
| On 05 Oct 2005 17:30:14 GMT, V S Rawat wrote:
> totojepast@razdva.cz wrote:
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> Classic Hamster is a free server having Killfile facility. It
> also downloads pop3, and sends smtp. Quite versatile.
And where does SpamAssassin fit in?
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| Simon Lyall 2005-10-07, 2:56 am |
| In news.software.nntp totojepast@razdva.cz wrote:
>I would like to start some tiny caching server for NNTP, but I would
>like to integrate SpamAssassin checking for every cached newsgroup
>post. Is there any patch/plugin available?
I don't think SpamAssassin is the ideal tool for this. Testing SA on some
random news articles I found that most of it's rules are a waste since
they are aimed at mail headers and other things not found in usenet posts.
The Bayesian filtering in SpamAssassin seemed to work pretty well with
usenet spam though [1] so I would advise just going for one for the pure
Bayesian (ish) spam filters.
I am not up on the interfaces for caching newsfeed programs sorry although
the old "suck" program has can use external filters.
[1] - Not that I could find much spam in the groups I have around,
cleanfeed (which is pretty primitive by email spam filtering standards)
seems to be "good enough" to block most usenet spam.
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