[ Thanks to Steve
Mallett for this link. ]
“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…”