[SoCoSA/discuss] Meeting...? Tonight...?

[Susan Baur]

Steve I got the following on the 27th...

> Just a reminder: we've got SoCoSA meeting on Wednesday at Sonic's  
> offices.
>
> http://socosa.org/meeting/2006/03
>
> Meeting: Fighting Spam
> Start:   2006-03-01 18:00
> End:     2006-03-01 20:30
> Topic:   Enterprise Spam Filtering Using Open Source Tools
> Speaker: Mark Linford of Santa Rosa Junior College
>
> Anyone with an email address is well aware of the problem of spam, or
> unsolicited bulk email. Though there are many commercial applications
> available to help enterprises cope with spam, their cost usually  
> puts them
> out of reach of all but the largest corporations.
>
> Mark Linford of Santa Rosa Junior College will discuss how their  
> campus used
> off-the-shelf computer components and SpamAssassin [1] (a popular
> open-source spam prevention system) to deliver commercial-quality spam
> filtering at a fraction of the cost.
>
> In addition to the basics of SpamAssassin, Mark will discuss:
>
>     * Using the Spam Assassin Rules Emporium (SARE) [2] to enhance  
> spam
>       detection
>     * Using a single server to control spam filtering for an entire  
> network
>     * Implementing Bayesian Filtering [3] site-wide
>
> Show up promptly at 6pm if you're interested in pizza. Feel free to  
> bring
> your own food.
>
> Speaker starts at 7pm, so try to show up around 6:45pm if you're not
> interested in food.
>
> Location:
>     Sonic.net, Inc.; the kitchen around back
>     2260 Apollo Way
>     Santa Rosa, CA, 95407
>
> See map:
>   http://maps.google.com?q=2260+Apollo+Way%2C+Santa+Rosa%2C+CA%2C 
> +95407%2C+us
>   http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=2260+Apollo+Way&csz=Santa 
> +Rosa%2C+CA&country=us
>
> Links:
> [1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/
> [2] http://www.rulesemporium.com/
> [3] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup
> -- 
> Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at SoCoSA.org>
> SoCoSA Founder and President
> IRC: freiheit on irc.socosa.org
> AIM: falschfreiheit


Susan

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Susan Baur
System Administrator
Center for Distributed Learning
707-664-4408
susan at cdl.edu