Yes, spamassassin is a slow filter. I think that the best spam fighting stategi is to use the best ideas form a spam tars like mtaproxy, tarproxy or sa-exim with at state of the art bayesian anti-spam filter like spambayes. or check my list of spamtools on http://all-technology.com/eigenpolls/spamsoftware/ for more ideas. Also check this comment for bayesian techniques for bug tracking. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=102170&cid=8717148 Knud