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Dspam




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  Latest Release Version 380
  Latest Release Date March 19 , 2007
  Operating System Unix-like
  Genre Email Spam Filter
  License GPL
  Website dspamnuclearelephantcom


DSPAM is a Free Software statistical Spam Filter written by Jonathan A. Zdziarski, author of the book ''Ending Spam'' (ISBN 1593270526). It is intended to be a Scalable , content-based spam filter for large Multi-user systems. DSPAM is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

The project consists of a Library , ''libdspam'', which contains the core filtering and storage routines, and Command-line and Web-based interfaces. DSPAM is MTA -independent, can store spam classification data in a number of Database formats, and uses Bayesian Filtering to learn and adapt to spam.

DSPAM's author claims that typical users of DSPAM have reported from 99.5 to 99.95% accuracy, including "best recorded levels of accuracy ... 99.991% by one avid user (2 errors in 22,786) and 99.987% by the author." DSPAM official site, Introduction. However, at the spam filter test performed at the best-performing DSPAM configuration had misclassification rates significantly worse than the leading filters in the test and far below stated levels of accuracy.


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