One of the WordPress gurus posted a blog entry about server problems he’s been having, relating to huge SPAM load. Looks like the same problems I was having that generated load averages in the 50’s, and I was only getting about 500 SPAM messages a day. How do so many people (including SourceForge) use SpamAssassin if it causes all these problems for what is really nominal email load?

I recently read this entry over at ZDNet (Slashdot story here). Now call me naive (or stupid, whatever), but I think this is definitely a good thing.

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