From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA23285; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:33 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24540 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mx2.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (mx2.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.9]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9P7vVD04503; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (sams [134.2.12.50]) by mx2.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE591060; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:29 +0200 (MST) Received: from sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9P7vUil049068; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sperber@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g9P7vLtd049067; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:21 +0200 (CEST) To: Xavier Leroy Cc: Sven Luther , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Announcement: SpamOracle References: <20020826151138.A32572@pauillac.inria.fr> <20021020104354.GA11059@iliana> <20021021144627.A12164@pauillac.inria.fr> From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:57:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20021021144627.A12164@pauillac.inria.fr> (Xavier Leroy's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:46:27 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.5 (brussels sprouts, i386-unknown-freebsd4.6.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Leroy writes: Xavier> I suggest we move this discussion off the Caml list, as it's not Xavier> really relevant to Caml. Briefly: >> That said, what i really wanted to know, is if you have some idea of how >> spamoracle would scale in case of heavy load, if you use it to filter >> mailing lists input for example ? For example, do you use it to filter >> the ocaml mailing lists or something such ? Xavier> We use SpamOracle to filter caml-bugs@inria.fr, with excellent Xavier> results. caml-list@inria.fr is filtered by the "must be subscribed to Xavier> post" policy of Majordomo. Xavier> Generally speaking, SpamOracle runs faster than SpamAssassin, so if Xavier> your e-mail system withstand the latter, it should withstand the Xavier> former. Of course, if your mailserver receives 10000 messages a day, Xavier> even SpamOracle could be computationally too expensive. For reference, I run the byte-code version of SpamOracle on our IBM 320 mail servers. I get on the order of 1000 messages/day which run through SpamOracle. The IBM 320 is an over-ten-year old desktop AIX machine, comparable about to a 486/33. (And it handles the email of the rest of the faculty as well, including several other SpamOracle users.) So any modern-hardware mailserver should be able to handle 10000/day easily. I love SpamOracle. BTW. the latest issue of the German "Spiegel" news magazine has an article about Bayesian SPAM filters, quoting Paul Graham as saying that the first one to offer a practical implementation of Bayes will surely become very rich. By my book, Xavier certainly deservers it. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners