Re: RFS: qsf - small and fast Bayesian spam filter
I've compiled and installed it without problems.
Good job ;)
On jue, 2005-05-12 at 20:57 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
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> Hi
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> I have made a package closing a RFP (#273937).
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> It's released under Artistic license. Below is the description telling
> what it the program and the differences between other spam filters.
>
> Quick Spam Filter (QSF) is an Open Source email classification filter,
> designed to be small, fast, and accurate, which works to classify
> incoming email as either spam or non-span. To recognise spam, QSF strips
> the text out of the email (using MIME decoding and HTML stripping) and
> then splits it into tokens (words, word pairs, URLs, and so on). These
> tokens are then looked up in a database and analysed using the Bayesian
> technique to see whether the email should be classified as spam or not.
> The database is generated by a process of training - QSF is given two
> mailboxes, one containing known spam, and the other containing known
> non-spam, to train itself on. After training, if QSF misfiles any email,
> the message it got wrong can be fed back into the database, thus making
> QSF learn from its mistakes. For a more in-depth look at the way in
> which QSF tokenises and classifies messages, please see the Technical
> Details section of the manual. QSF is designed to be run by an MDA, such
> as procmail.
> QSF's targets are speed, accuracy, and simplicity. So:
> * It is small and is written in C so it starts up quickly, unlike
> filters written in Perl.
> * It understands MIME and HTML, so it can intelligently deal with modern
> spam, unlike older Bayesian filters such as ifile.
> * It runs as an inline filter rather than as a daemon, so it is simple
> to install.
> * It is written to do only one job - decide whether an email is spam or
> not using the content of the message alone - so it is less complex than
> filters such as SpamAssassin. Less complexity means bugs and security
> problems are less likely.
> * As well as words and word pairs, QSF also spots special patterns in
> email such as runs of gibberish, HTML comments embedded in text, and
> other common spam giveaways, and its flexible tokeniser allows more
> patterns to be added as spammers change their tactics.
> Homepage: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/qsf/
>
> Package and source code are available at
> http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/qsf/
>
> Package is linda and lintian clean. Builds OK on pbuilder.
>
> Someone may say that there is no .orig file. That's because upstream
> author gives me access to project CVS. He preferred that, instead of
> removing the /debian dir from the source code. He has his reasons to
> maintain /debian dir, even after I have talked to him and explained
> about distributing /debian dir on source code.
>
> Well, I think that is it. Error, suggestions, critics, are all welcome! :-)
>
> Thank you!
> Nelson
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