If anyone wants the slides from my talk yesterday afternoon here they are: Open Office format PDF format … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk – Email Filtering
Spam Filtering
Pre-talk Nerves
I'm scheduled to give a talk in the University of Limerick this afternoon as part of Skynet's conference - Skycon. Even though I've given plenty of talks in the past I am always incredibly tense beforehand. This afternoon I'll be talking about email filtering on a large scale :) As there are quite a few hardcore geeks onsite today I'm hoping they'll all have gone to the other … [Read more...] about Pre-talk Nerves
Clear English – Abuse Desk
Once you have a reasonably sized network you will get abuse complaints. It doesn't matter what's causing the complaints (well it does... ) but you need to be able to react quickly and deal with the issues. I've mentioned my own experiences dealing with abuse desks in the past..... Now for the flipside. Would someone please please please tell people to send clear abuse reports? … [Read more...] about Clear English – Abuse Desk
Splogs are driving me mad
I mentioned previously how blogs and forums (fora) are converging. I've been running the excellent VBSeo mod on a couple of forums for the last few months and the SEO results have been more than satisfactory, however there's no such thing as a free lunch :) The downside is that the forum is being hit with trackbacks from splogs all the time. In the last 24 hours it got really … [Read more...] about Splogs are driving me mad
SkyCon Talk Topic
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