Hula

Novell homesteads more of the noosphere by starting the Hula project - an open-source collaboration (read this as email and calendering) server.

As Nat says, this is a scaleable (50,000 simultaneous users and 200,000 mailboxes) proprietry product that Novell have LGPL'd/MPL'd. Looks like they have grand plans - an open-source equivalent to gmail for both mail and calendering being one of them.

The Ximian^WNovell guys do it so well. Evolution, Mono, f-spot, beagle, iFolder - they all rock. Now we're going to see an Exchange-killer added to the mix? Woohoo. I'm hoping this will be a resounding success - another piece of the software stack replaced by secure-by-design, virii-and-malware-free, guarrenteed-to-be-long-term-maintainable free software. Yum.

tech/code | 16 Feb 2005 | #

spam spam spam spam spam

Spam has broken through my defenses. Again.

I was bogofiltering, and auto-updating my wordlist, but only tagging definite spam as Spam, and lumping definite ham and unsure's together as Ham. The result has been that only about 50% has getting caught.

So time to try something different. I started my wordlist afresh, and am filtering Unsures to be manually dealt with. This will mean quite a bit of work for a few weeks until the corpus catches up, but at least it'll mean a more accurate filter for that junk that ends up in my mailbox.

So far (less than 48 hours) there's been no false positives, and the Unsure list has been small. Looks like my old wordlist really got bent out of shape. I was considering preloading my wordlist with one of those downloadable corpuses of spam. Anyone had good success going this way?

meta | 16 Feb 2005 | #