Re: Palm and Python support

Mark Livingstone explained:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:57:24 +0100 (BST) Mike Ralphson <mike_ralphson <at> yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the offer Mike. At present, there are two things I have planned
> for myself to play with in Mahogany. I want to have spam filtering an
> integral part - not via proxies etc A real button in the program situation,
> not something you have to use an external program or browser to run. Now I
> know that the current 0.65 will come with a nice set of inbuilt text
> filters but it is not a complete solution. I like the concept of something
> like spambayes built in. Buttons that say this is spam that sort of thing. 

I would like to offer an alternative antispam solution.  The system is camram. 
It currently incorporates three defenses against Spam and one of the defenses 
also serves as a remedy for problems with Bayesian and other content filters.

The initial foundations of camram was based in the world of hashcash, a core 
component of sender pays antispam systems developed by Adam Back.  simple sender 
pays systems with postage due notices don't work well in the real world so I 
added white listing and an enhanced Bayesian style discriminator (CRM114) to the 
mix.  The end result is when you e-mail to someone who also uses stamps, you 
never need to worry about your e-mail being trapped because it had features that 
looked like Spam.  Also, if you e-mail someone frequently, your mail will always 
get through because of the traffic based white list.  And if the mail falls into 
me the category, it's no worse off than it would have been with a traditional 
filter.  In the future, that will change for the better with the targeted 
postage due notice system.

I've been looking for an e-mail clients to integrate it into and if someone will 
work with me on it, we can integrate it into mahogany.  kept since you don't 
want to use proxies (a wise choice) and are trying to use python, camram would 
fit in relatively well.  It would need to tap into the received data stream and 
the sending data stream in order to do filtering and appropriate stamp 
generation.  We would also need to rewrite the user interface to the spamtrap 
and the configuration variables unless you want to keep using the Web interface.

http://camram.sourceforge.net will lead you to the cvs archive and I highly 
recommend using the cvs archive as the current tar balls are out of date.  I'm 
waiting for some contributions before finishing up 0.2.

---eric

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