Rather than try to reinvent the wheel and in order to keep in tune with the Open Source / Technical flavour of Skycon.... I've decided to give the talk on email filtering using MailScanner... Since that sounds very uninspired I'll see if I can come up with a sexier title. How about: Mine's big enough! - Filtering 50,000 users' mail using open source technology It doesn't have … [Read more...] about SkyCon Talk Topic
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Skycon Talk?
Laura has put a gun to my head. I have to decide on a topic for my talk at Skycon and I've got about 24 hours to do it. For once I won't be the only representative from Blacknight presenting!! Paul, in a possible moment of madness, also agreed to give a talk. As he's a hardcore geek he'll probably be right at home, whereas I'm a little more wary. What should I give a talk … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk?
ENN – Press Release Recycling At Its Best?
Why oh why do people in ENN simply publish companies' press releases as if they were gospel? It just so happens that I have a conflicting set of results... Odd that, isn't it? Note the inclusion of actual figures ie. you can see how many emails were involved, as opposed to a vague and unscientific statement with no actual figures to support its conclusions (they may have the … [Read more...] about ENN – Press Release Recycling At Its Best?
Upcoming Interviews – MailScanner’s Julian Field
Like so many other bloggers it looks like I'm going to be going down the interview route a bit as well.... In my case I'd like to talk to people whose work fits in with my own particular set of interests, so the first person I've asked to give an interview is Julian Field, who is the developer of MailScanner I won't be podcasting this particular interview, as it will be … [Read more...] about Upcoming Interviews – MailScanner’s Julian Field
MailScanner – Even More New Features
Julian has just released the August version of MailScanner and, as usual, has made a great bit of software even better. One of the things that has always been awkward to track were changes in the config ie. our custom changes vs. Julian's default settings. You can now see this easily by running: MailScanner --changed which will output a table of values that have been changed. … [Read more...] about MailScanner – Even More New Features