[SpamAssassin Wiki] Updated: SpamAssassin

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   Date: 2004-10-16T13:01:34
   Editor: MichaelDouma <wi...@michaeldouma.com>
   Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
   Page: SpamAssassin
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SpamAssassin

   expand with info from the 22 Sep 2004 press release

Change Log:

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-SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam.
-See http://spamassassin.apache.org/ for more details.
+#pragma section-numbers off
+= What is Spam``Assassin? =
+
+Spam``Assassin is a mail filter to identify spam. It is an intelligent email filter which uses a diverse range of tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as ["Spam"], also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE) These tests are applied to email headers and content to classify email using advanced statistical methods.  In addition, Spam``Assassin has a modular architecture that allows other technologies to be quickly wielded against spam and is designed for easy integration into virtually any email system.
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+= Advantages =
+
+Spam``Assassin's practical multi-technique approach, modularity, and extensibility continue to give it an advantage over other anti-spam systems.  Due to these advantages, Spam``Assassin is widely used in all aspects of email management.  You can readily find Spam``Assassin in use in both email clients and servers, on many different operating systems, filtering incoming as well as outgoing email, and implementing a very broad range of policy actions.  These installations include service providers, businesses, not-for-profit and educational organizations, and end-user systems.  Spam``Assassin also forms the basis for numerous commercial anti-spam products available on the market today.
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+= How it works =
  
 This flexible and powerful set of Perl programs, unlike older spam filtering approaches, uses the combined score from multiple types of checks to determine if a given message is spam.
 
 Its primary features are:
   * Header tests
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   * Body phrase tests. For more information, see SpamAssassinRules.
   * Bayesian filtering (BayesFaq)
   * Automatic address whitelist/blacklist (AutoWhitelist)
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   * DNS Blocklists. See DnsBlocklists
   * Character sets and locales
  
-Even though any one of these tests might, by themselves, mis-identify a ham or spam, their combined score is terribly difficult to fool.
+Even though any one of these tests might, by themselves, mis-identify a ["Ham"] or ["Spam"], their combined score is terribly difficult to fool.
+
+= About the Apache Software Foundation =
 
+Spam``Assassin is an Apache Software Foundation project and is released under the Apache License. The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of open source software projects.  As a US 501(c)(3) public charity, the Foundation provides an established framework for contributions of both intellectual property and funding for the support of open source software development.  Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products for the public benefit, attracting large communities of users and enabling future innovation, both commercial and individual, through its pragmatic Apache License.