"When most of us get email offering questionable herbal alternatives to Viagra or dubiously low prices on Adobe software, we simply delete it, having accepted long ago that receiving at least some unsolicited email comes with the price of using the Internet. But for Daniel Quinlan, it motivates him to figure out how to stop it--for not just his sake but everybody else's. It's his job: He works as an anti-spam architect for an email security provider. And his paid work also carries over to his contributions to SpamAssassin, of which he currently chairs this free software's Project Management Committee.
"Supported by the Apache Software Foundation, this server-side spam filter is one of the most widely-deployed programs in the open-source world. It's readily available for free, and is also implemented in many commercial packages. SpamAssassin is pretty much the standard in spam-filtering..."
