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by Pilanian - Feb 24th 2008 21:11:39
Hello,
The spambouncer site news (http://www.spambouncer.org/whatsnew.shtml)
indicates the last release to be dated April 16, 2006 version 2.2 and 2.3
beta.
I understand that Catherine Hampton (Ariel) author of spambouncer has
since got married and appears to have put spambouncer on
"hold".
--
-- Raj
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Need Updates
by Hank - Jul 26th 2006 08:10:51
A lot of spam is beginning to get through even with my additional procmail
recipes and these are usually caught with the updates. I wonder if
Catherine is sick or giving up the project or just behind on this? Does
anyone know? I really don't want to install spamassassin on my server. I
use it on another server and while it works well, it takes a lot of the
control away from me whereas spambouncer provides so many ways to control
and filter manually that it just puts me in the driver's seat and I prefer
that.
Anybody know what is going on with Catherine?
Hank
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3 months no update?
by Jim Knoble - Mar 7th 2006 10:07:22
Anyone happen to know what's going on with SpamBouncer? The last update is
2005-12-22, and it's now nearly 3 months later. I'm worried something may
have happened to Catherine. Anyone have any news?
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SpamBouncer is Terrific
by Sally Shears - Mar 2nd 2006 12:36:28
I'm just a little confused about spambouncer here on freshmeat vs.
spambouncer.org, but I want to say that SpamBouncer is just terrific.
I depend on Catherine's frequent updates and I have added a few procmail
recipies of my own. In particular, SpamBouncer helps by checking lists of
URLs mentioned in spams. I'm seeing a few false positives (msgs with links
to cgi scripts named ?.exe for example), but it's doing a great job
here.
Thanks, Catherine, for SpamBouncer.
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freshmeat subscribers of SpamBouncer: thanks for your patience
by BACbKA - Jul 4th 2004 13:35:29
Due to various personal reasons (and hence a lack of time) I couldn't
devote enough resources to beta-testing and announcing spambouncer updates.
Hopefully, it's back to normal effective immediately. (My policy is to
announce it on freshmeat only once I have checked the major source code
differences and tested it on my site, unless it is marked upstream as an
"urgent fix"). BTW, happy holiday to the U.S. readers...
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thanks to Catherine A. Hampton!!
by BACbKA - Jun 27th 2002 10:43:35
Wow, what a terrific performance I am getting from
the latest 1.5 update! No spam at all creeping into
my inbox causing the "new mail" false alert!!
Keep up the good work!
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Re: thanks to Catherine A. Hampton!!
by walt - Jul 14th 2003 12:45:59
Does anyone know if SpamBouncer will continue as an open source product?
I've noticed that a comany called CyberNet is now selling it, and there
have been no updates on the web site in nearly six months.
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Re: thanks to Catherine A. Hampton!!
by Mike - May 4th 2004 16:24:03
I agree that SpamBouncer is a great tool. But I noticed that despite what
it says, messages are being caught as spam even though they originate from
addresses that are listed in the NOBOUNCE file. I e-mailed the author but
have not received a response. Maybe the product has gone commercial. Has
anyone seen this behavior before? Any ideas as to what may be causing it?
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Re: thanks to Catherine A. Hampton!!
by BACbKA - Jul 4th 2004 13:15:44
> I agree that SpamBouncer is a great
> tool. But I noticed that despite what it
> says, messages are being caught as spam
> even though they originate from
> addresses that are listed in the
> NOBOUNCE file. I e-mailed the author but
I have never seen this, except maybe when somebody else was obviously
faking the mail, some fakery detection might be working before the NOBOUNCE
check. Overall, NOBOUNCE was very reliable for me.
> have not received a response. Maybe the
From my personal experience, Catherine Hampton works in what's known as a
"Linus mode" wrt the feedback emails. If you fired a bug report with enough
info for her to fix it, she'll silently fix it in the next release with
minimal comments on the project main page. If you sent her an email that
betrays obvious misconfiguration, you'll probably be ignored. (If you are
talking about an obscure feature, you might be ignored even if you submit a
patch - reminds Linus, doesn't it? but NOBOUNCE certainly isn't
obscure).
> product has gone commercial. Has anyone
> seen this behavior before? Any ideas as
> to what may be causing it?
Did you try the latest version (from June 28 as of today)?
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Re: thanks to Catherine A. Hampton!!
by BACbKA - Jul 4th 2004 13:09:06
> Does anyone know if SpamBouncer will
> continue as an open source product?
So far it has. The project home page says that
as long as one abides by the GPL terms in redistributing it, it's alright,
so noone precludes you to fork it off as a pure GPL project of your own if
you want.
> I've noticed that a comany called
> CyberNet is now selling it, and there
> have been no updates on the web site in
> nearly six months.
There have been periods of inactivity on the upstream page apparently due
to the author's day-job workload bursts. However, it keeps going.
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feedback on spambouncer performance
by BACbKA - Jul 4th 2004 13:19:35
Since my original comment, various update came and went, and some were
better and some were worse at catching spam. However, instead of publicly
posting the hit-and-miss ratio for the spammers to use to adjust their
nasty spamguns, I now use the spamtrap address posted on the spambouncer
home page, where I forward all the seeped through spam as an attachment. If
you do so too, be sure you've checked for updates before you flood the
spamtrap :)
Overall, I still continue using spambouncer and I think it is a great
tool. It also prompted me to learn procmail a bit more and thus I was able
to enhance my set up with a lot of local customizations that help me in my
daily mail processing.
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