Re: Open Source SpamNet look-alike

[Thomas G. <gu...@th...>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:58:38AM -0400, Keith Jackson wrote:
> I don't want to trust a 'corporation' to manage the servers and
> whatnot. So, I looked around. First I found razor. But, it looked
> like a wannabe OpenSource Cloudmark. This however looks like a true
> Open Source look-alike, which is what I'm looking for.

That's why I use it, too.


> Now the point of this email..
> 
> I've been looking around your site for protocol documentation, and there is
> none. Please tell me the protocol is open? If truly open source, I should be
> able to write a server and/or client that would be compatible with your
> server and/or client. And that's precisely what I would like to do. I'm not
> going to get into an argument over what languages are better, but for my
> purposes, having this in Python just isn't good enough, I intend to write a
> C/C++ implementation, maybe an Outlook add-in, etc.

Python is very good, realy. You can extend it with C/C++. You even can
write COM-Server or clients (win32). This might help you for the
outlook plugin.

> If there is a C/C++ implementation already being worked on somewhere else, I
> would be interested in helping on that. If not, I'm going to be starting
> one. 

Why? Are you afraid that python is too slow? 99% a better algorithm helps.

I guess you can reverse engineer the protocol by looking at the
code. Python is very readable.

 thomas

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