[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Spam: It’s what’s for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch. And
every snack in between. Wherever you turn these days, spam is
invading inboxes everywhere, quickly making the jump from an
annoyance to major business problem. Spam is much more operating
system-agnostic than many e-mail viruses, so you can find a host of
anti-spam solutions for a variety of products on a variety of
platforms.“One solution for UNIX and Linux mail servers is DSPAM, which
acts as the local delivery agent for the server and learns to
recognize spam to ease the administrative burden of constantly
keeping up with blacklists. DSPAM uses a Bayesian statistical
analysis to improve the success rate and reduce the percentage of
false positives…”