[pkg-dspam-commits] r23 - trunk/web

Thu Oct 27 16:47:12 UTC 2005

Author: kbk-guest
Date: Thu Oct 27 16:47:11 2005
New Revision: 23

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   trunk/web/
   trunk/web/index.html
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Check-in project web page


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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+  <title>DSPAM for Debian</title>
+  <style type="text/css">
+  body { 
+    margin-left: 10%; 
+    margin-right: 10%; 
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+  }
+  h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { margin-left: -3% }
+  pre {
+     color: green; font-weight: bold;
+     white-space: pre; font-family: "Courier New", monospace;
+  }
+  em { font-style: italic; font-weight: bold }
+  strong { text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold }
+  .navbar {text-align: center }</style>
+</head>
+
+<body bgcolor="white" text="black">
+
+
+<p class="navbar"><br>
+<a href="#intro">Introduction</a> | <a href="#development">Development</a></p>
+
+
+<h2>pkg-dspam</h2><h2>Debianizing the DSPAM Email Spam Filter</h2>
+
+<h3><a name="intro">Introduction</a></h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/">DSPAM</a> is a scalable, statistical spam filter.  Quoting Federico Sevilla III, who submitted the original RFP:
+<blockquote>
+"DSPAM (as in De-Spam) is an open-source project to create a new kind of
+anti-spam mechanism, and is currently effective as both a server-side
+agent for UNIX email servers and a developer's library for mail clients,
+other anti-spam tools, and similar projects requiring drop-in spam
+filtering.
+<br><br>
+The DSPAM agent masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent
+and filters/learns spams using an advanced Bayesian statistical approach
+(based on Baye's theorem of combined probabilities) which provides an
+administratively maintenance-free, easy-learning Anti-Spam service
+custom tailored to each individual user's behavior. Advanced because on
+top of standard Bayesian filtering is also incorporated the use of
+Chained Tokens, de-obfuscation, and other enhancements. DSPAM works
+great with Sendmail and Exim, and should work well with any other MTA
+that supports an external local delivery agent (postfix, qmail, etc.)"
+</blockquote>
+<br>
+False negatives are rejected by the user by using the mail client to 
+forward them to the user's "spam" mailbox.  False positives 
+can be reviewed using a web browser (
+
+<a href="http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/screenshots/dspam2.png">
+screenshot</a>
+
+), and these actions are used by DSPAM to train itself.</p>
+
+<p>There has been quite a bit of interest lately in packaging this application
+for Debian.  Discussion to date has been carried out on 
+
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=195948">
+Debian Bug # 195948</a>
+
+.  The work accomplished so far has been assembled from the patches sent
+to 195948, tagged to reflect the submissions, and added to the 
+
+Alioth pkg-dspam
+<a href="http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dspam/?cvsroot=pkg-dspam">
+CVS</a>
+
+.</p>
+
+<h5>Initial Contributors</h5>
+<ul>
+<li>The first diff was contributed by Roger Keays on 15 June 2004.  It is 
+tagged as <b>KEAYS</b>.
+<li>The second diff was contributed by Tommi Virtanen on 20 August 2004.  Virtanen
+is a Debian Developer.  He updated and polished the Keays diff and is apparently using the 
+resulting .deb in production.  He used exim and db4. The CVS tag is<br>
+<b>r3_0_0_virtanen</b>.
+<li>The third diff was the culmination of work done by Tim Small between
+12 Oct and 30 Nov 2004.  Small switched to mysql and worked on configuration
+issues (postinst and postrm).  The CVS tag is <br><b>r3_2_3-2_small</b>.
+<li>The third diff is from Jesus Climent, 16 December 2004.
+He was able to take advantage of the upstream change at release 3.2 from configuration
+at build time to run time configuration.
+
+Climent broke up the package to support mysql, postgresql, sqlite, and db4 by
+moving from a CDBS implementation to one based on a makefile.
+Climent also eliminated the .../cgi/*.cgi.in files which were not accepted upstream
+and removed the postinst/postrm files (They are in .../debian/Attic).
+The CVS tag is <br><b>r3_2_3-3_climent</b>.
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="development">Development</a></h3>
+Development is taking place at debian.org's Alioth site:
+<a href="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-dspam/">
+http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-dspam/</a>
+
+<p>Mail List: <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-dspam-misc">
+pkg-dspam-misc at alioth.debian.org</a>
+
+<p>CVS: <a href="http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dspam/?cvsroot=pkg-dspam">
+http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dspam/?cvsroot=pkg-dspam</a>
+
+<p>TODO List:
+<a href="http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dspam/debian/TODO?cvsroot=pkg-dspam">
+http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/dspam/debian/TODO?cvsroot=pkg-dspam</a>
+
+<br><br>
+</body>
+</html>

