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Archive for July, 2009
HADOPI I & II: letter from my local representative
Jul 25th
I have received an official letter from my local representative, in which he sums up the recent events in the area of the HADOPI law.
I will only quote the following parts of his letter, referring to the amendments proposed to this law, following to the partial censure of the Constitutional Council:
[...] ce qui me laisse plus que très dubitatif sur l’efficacité du dispositif. [...] cette procédure me semble tout à fait inadaptée.
Which can be translated as follows:
[...] I doubt this disposal will have any effect. [...] I think this procedure is absolutely not adapted.
Now, let’s bet what will be his vote in September!
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Email management and spam fighting, testing Google Apps
Jul 14th
I have been thinking a lot lately about email management and spam fighting.
For my personal email, I use a setup based on Postfix, RBL and WL, grey listing, and DSPAM (by the way, you can find unofficial packages of current development version in my personal repository).
To better train DSPAM, I have removed all other filters (except some very basic controls at SMTP time), and I am very happy of this setup (grey listing delays receipt of email, which I am not very satisfied with, and relying on third-parties RBL is also not the best thing imho). This lead however to much more mail in my DSPAM quarantine queue.
I will hence re-enable more advanced filters at SMTP time once DSPAM bayes are large enough.
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(Almost) inactive
Jul 5th
Things have been quiet recently which explains I haven’t blogged for a long time.
I have been mostly working on keeping my unofficial dspam development packages up-to-date to allow good testing amoungst Debian users.
For those who want to upgrade from the 3.6.8 Debian package, please make sure you read and follow the instructions of the UPGRADING file: the upgrade steps are not done automatically! I let it to the official maintainers. However, I am sad to see no activity in the pkg-dspam svn repository since last September!
DSPAM 3.9.0 is now in the final testing step, 2 alpha releases have already been published, I hope we can have updated Debian packages shortly when the final version is released.
My plans for the summer are to update all my articles, most of them being unfortunately outdated, though still usable.
